Definition of Aramus pictus

1. Noun. Wading bird of Florida, Cuba and Jamaica having a drooping bill and a distinctive wailing call.

Exact synonyms: Limpkin
Generic synonyms: Wader, Wading Bird
Group relationships: Gruiformes, Order Gruiformes

Lexicographical Neighbors of Aramus Pictus

Aram
Aram Ilich Khachaturian
Aram Kachaturian
Aram Khachaturian
Aramaean
Aramaeans
Aramaic
Aramaic script
Aramaism
Aramaisms
Aramanik
Aramean
Arameans
Aramus
Aramus guarauna
Aramus pictus (current term)
Aramæan
Aramæans
Aran
Aran-Duchenne disease
Aran Islands
Aran jumper
Aranadan
Aranea
Aranea diademata
Araneae
Araneida
Aranese
Araneus
Araneus cavaticus

Literary usage of Aramus pictus

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1876)
"... the crying bird, beautifully speckled " = Aramus pictus (Bartr.) Coues = A. giganteus auct. Elsewhere fully described. 21. ..."

2. The Cambridge Natural History by Sidney Frederick Harmer, Arthur Everett Shipley (1899)
"Aramus pictus, the Clucking Hen or Limpkin of the Greater Antilles, South Florida, and Central America, is chocolate-brown ..."

3. The Published Writings of Spencer Fullerton Baird, 1843-1882 by George Brown Goode (1883)
"(Southern portions in general, straggling northward.) Hab. whole of tropical America. 581. Aramus pictus. (Florida.) Hab. West Indies and Atlantic ..."

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