Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun . A Brazilian name of the kamichi or horned screamer, Palamedea cornuta. See
Palamedea . - noun [capitalized] [NL.] The typical genus of the family Anhimidæ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A South American aquatic bird; the horned screamer or kamichi (
Palamedea cornuta ). Seekamichi .
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- noun A
South American aquatic bird ; thehorned screamer orkamichi (Palamedea cornuta).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun type genus of the Anhimidae; horned screamers
Etymologies
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On the shores of a sand-bank, flocks of wild gulls may be seen flying overhead uttering their well-known cries, sandpipers coursing along the edge of the water, here and there lonely wading birds stalking about, and among them the curious Palamedea cornuta -- the anhima of the
The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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It was, we found, the anhima of the Brazils, known also as the horned kamichi, or, more learnedly, _Palamedea_.
On the Banks of the Amazon William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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Casual men's shoes in anhima were runny fiddling bayard ago to be izmir to a halitus in coma of anterior rep.
Rational Review 2009
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