Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The Opisthocomus cristatus, a remarkable bird of South America, of uncertain affinities, differing so much from all other known birds that a superfamily group, Opisthocomi or Heteromorphæ, has been formed for its reception. Also hoatzin, hoazin.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A crested ill-smelling South American bird (
Opisthocomus hoazin ) whose young have claws on the first and second digits of the wings.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun crested ill-smelling South American bird whose young have claws on the first and second digits of the wings
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Earth has a bird with similar structures, the hoactzin.
The Earth Book of Stormgate Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1978
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