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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of beautiful caprimulgine birds, the African standard-bearers, having a pair of the inner flight-feathers enormously extended and expanded, as in
C. rexillarius and C. burtoni. G. R. Gray, 1840. Semiophorus is a synonym.
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