Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A name of the crested screamer, Chauna chavaria. Also chaha.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Zoöl.) The crested screamer of Brazil (Palamedea chavaria syn. Chauna chavaria), so called in imitation of its notes; -- called also
chauna , andfaithful kamichi . It is often domesticated and is useful in guarding other poultry. See kamichi.
WordNet 3.0
- n. largest crested screamer; native to southern Brazil and Argentina
Examples
“The beautifully coloured and almost transparently winged golden moorhen covers every stretch of water inland, and the "chaja" or wild turkey, one of the most useless birds in the Chaco, and quite uneatable, sends forth his dismal cry "chaja.”
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