Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A South American fissirostral barbet of the genus Chelidoptera. See cut under Chelidoptera.
Examples
“Close cap, tight, satiny, blue-black bathing dress, black rubber beach shoes, roll of white towelling startling against the swallow-wing sheen of the black.”
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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...
Tweets
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reesetee Chelidoptera tenebrosa, a species of bird in the Bucconidae family, the puffbirds. The only species in the genus Chelidoptera, it is native to Brazil and the entire Amazon Basin, as well as Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, the Guianas, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Peru, and Venezuela. Feb 8, 2008