Definitions
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- proper noun A taxonomic
genus within thefamily Psophiidae .
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Examples
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Trumpeters (Psophia species) might prove to be a useful species for sustainable production within tropical forests.
5 Chicken 1991
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Dark-winged trumpeters (Psophia viridis), eared doves (Zenaida auriculata), crimson topaz (Topaza pella), endemic scaled spinetails (Cranioleuca muelleri), and bare-eyed robins (Turdus nudigenis) are found here but are not common elsewhere.
Gurupa varzea 2008
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Penelope, Psophia, and Palamedea), all of which are so remote from the gallinaceous types found farther north, that they remind one quite as much of the bustard, and other ostrich-like birds, as of the hen and pheasant.
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