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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In ornithology, a genus of birds, proposed by Cabanis in 1846 for a section of the Macartney pheasants, genus Euplocamus of Temminck. The type is A. erythrophthalmus of Malacca.
- noun A poetical name of the domestic cock.
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