anhinga

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Represent to yourself an enormous duck with a neck like a swan, a bill straight, tapering, and longer than the head, webbed feet, and widely spreading and well-feathered wings, and then know the _anhinga_.

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  1. noun Any of a genus (Anhinga) of long-necked birds having a sharp, pointed bill and inhabiting swampy regions of tropical and subtropical America. Also called darter, snakebird, water turkey.

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  • The unhappy Cubans found it funny when an anhinga, one of those "snake birds," surfaced next to the lieutenant, damn near giving him a heart attack It was one of the Cubans who finally got the engine started again; he was better in a pinch than our own shop mechanic would have been. —  EQMM,August2006
  • More High Island birds: Ruby-throated hummingbird, rose-breasted grosbeak, white ibis, anhinga, roseate spoonbill.
  • More Armand Bayou birds: White and brown pelicans, anhinga, black - and yellow-crowned night herons, black-bellied whistling duck, belted kingfisher.
  • The flesh of the anhinga is not valuable, as it is hard and tough. —  Aventures d'un jeune naturaliste. English
  • The latter, I must confess, did not seem to us so nice as the dark-colored meat of the anhinga. —  Aventures d'un jeune naturaliste. English
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  1. Portuguese, from Tupi ayingá.

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  1. South American name.
 

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