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Definition of Kamichi

1. n. A curious South American bird (Anhima, or Palamedea, cornuta), often domesticated by the natives and kept with poultry, which it defends against birds of prey. It has a long, slender, hornlike ornament on its head, and two sharp spurs on each wing. Although its beak, feet, and legs resemble those of gallinaceous birds, it is related in anatomical characters to the ducks and geese (Anseres). Called also horned screamer. The name is sometimes applied also to the chaja. See Chaja, and Screamer.

Definition of Kamichi

1. Noun. (zoology) A South American bird with a long, slender, horn-like ornament on its head and two sharp spurs on each wing. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Kamichi

1. a South American bird [n -S]

Medical Definition of Kamichi

1. A curious South American bird (Anhima, or Palamedea, cornuta), often domesticated by the natives and kept with poultry, which it defends against birds of prey. It has a long, slender, hornlike ornament on its head, and two sharp spurs on each wing. Although its beak, feet, and legs resemble those of gallinaceous birds, it is related in anatomical characters to the ducks and geese (Anseres). Called also horned screamer. The name is sometimes applied also to the chaja. See Chaja, and Screamer. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

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Literary usage of Kamichi

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

1. The English Cyclopaedia by Charles Knight (1867)
"D'Azara says that both this bird and the kamichi are provided with a cottony down at ' the base of the feathers like swansdown ; that the plumage of the ..."

2. Essays on Natural History, Chiefly Ornithology by Charles Waterton (1844)
"There is a bird in Guiana named kamichi. We call it the horned screamer. On its head grows a long, ... Even if the horn on the head of the kamichi were of ..."

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