Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The typical genus of birds of the family Cracidæ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun the type genus of the
Cracidae ; curassows.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun type genus of the Cracidae: curassows
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John called it the crested curassow -- the _crax alector_.
On the Banks of the Amazon William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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Another species (the crax globicera) inhabits the Upper Amazon, and possesses a round instead of a bean-shaped excrescence on the beak.
The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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