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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of East Indian fissirostral picarian birds, of the family Caprimulgidæ, or goatsuckers, sometimes combined with Podargus in a family Podargidæ, the frogmouths, or frog-mouthed goatsuckers: so called from the enormous extent of the mouth.
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