Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Any of several large game birds of the family Cracidae, native to the jungles of tropical America and related to and resembling the curassows.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An American bird of the family Cracidæ and subfamily Penelopinæ, related to the hoccos and curassows. There are 7 genera (Aburria, Chamœpetes, Ortalis (or Ortalida), Pipile, Penelope, Penelopina, Stegnolæma), and some 40 species. The Texan guan, the only one which reaches the United States, is Ortalis vetula maccalli, known as the chachalaca. See also cut under
Aburria .
Wiktionary
- n. Any (member) of several species of birds in the genera Aburria, Chamaepetes, Oreophasis, Penelope, Penelopina, and Pipile, of the family Cracidae, limited to the Americas.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. ((Zoöl.) Any one of many species of large gallinaceous birds of Central and South America, belonging to Penelope, Pipile, Ortalis, and allied genera. Several of the species are often domesticated.
WordNet 3.0
- n. any of several large turkey-like game birds of the family Cracidae; native to jungles of tropical America; resembling the curassows and valued as food
Etymologies
- From American Spanish, from Kuna kwama. (Wiktionary)
- American Spanish, of South American Indian origin. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The bandit chief is not impressed, but soon he and his men are made quick work of by the woman and her large polearm (she wields what is called a guan dao in Chinese, it's a long pole weapon with a curved blade fixed at the top).”
“Still, while you feel "guan" shouldn't be translated as controlled, I don't think "controlled" necessarily leads to people to think of "oppressed".”
“Once, when eating breakfast at a small outdoor aboriginal restaurant in the mountains of Taiwan, the owner, a motherly woman, asked me if I wanted to try some, "san bei guan niu".”
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““Ti hu guan ding” can be translated as suddenly achieve enlightenment.”
““San guan sheng jiang” pronounced sahn gwahn shung jyahng means energy ascends and descends in three gates.”
““Ti hu guan ding” pronounced tee hoo gwahn ding means jade liquid pours into your head and goes into your heart; you suddenly awaken and realize the Tao wisdom.”
“Large military units such as zhen, xie, and ying were put in urban cities while many small military posts such as xun, tang, guan, shao, and ka (referred together as xun-tang), were set up in the remote mountainous areas.”
Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)
“Yunnan Tongzhi (Daoguang edition) recorded that there were over 3,500 xun, tang, guan, shao, and ka throughout Yunnan. 104 These military units, like the Ming military colonies, became villages of Han households, which began to penetrate ethnic mountain areas, particularly in southern and southwestern Yunnan.”
Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)
“Some representative birds of the ecoregion include black-fronted piping-guan (Pipile jacutinga), helmeted woodcreeper (Dryocopus galeatus), and São Paulo tyrannulet (Phylloscartes paulistus).”
“Among the distinctive bird species in the hotspot is the aforementioned white-winged guan (Penelope albipennis, CR), which is found only in the dry forests at the southern extreme of the hotspot.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘guan’.
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animals (1 syllable)
A list of common animal names. Keep the list to 1 syllable words.No scientific names. No proper names like 'Fluffy' the elephant.Insects and other creatures (even ficticious) are welcome!You can ...
dog, cat, bear, bee, ass, ape, horse, squid, bug, hare, hawk, pig and 138 more...
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birds
birds with singular names from
at least 9 English dictionariesaasvogel, aberdevine, accentor, accipiter, aepyornis, agami, albatross, alcatras, alcid, alcidine, amadavat, amokura and 1056 more...
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hats and headgear
Everything hats,things with hoods,hoods,scarves,crowns,useful
adjectival forms,hat expressions,
alternate spellingsbabushka, balaclava, bamoral, baseball cap, beanie, bearskin, beaver hat, beret, billycock, biretta, boater, bobble hat and 422 more...
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Still More Bird Wirds
A work in progress....Birds from around the world (other than endemic to North America).
barbet, hornbill, trogon, bee-eater, bristlehead, wren-babbler, stubtail, blackeye, bush warbler, cassowary, bowerbird, bird-of-paradise and 722 more...
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W.E.L.D.E.R.
réchauffé, gast, dere, heller, arête, wair, tut, shad, tipi, emeu, codon, unco and 65 more...
Tweets
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chained_bear See also curassow and chachalaca. Apr 28, 2009