Definitions
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- n. The bellbird of South America.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. The bellbird of South America. See bellbird.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A Spanish name of the South American bell-birds, as the arapunga and others of the genus Chasmorhynchus: so called from the bell-like sound of their voice. See arapunga.
Etymologies
Examples
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He looked up and round; the birds had ceased to chirp; the parroquets were hiding behind the leaves; the monkeys were clustered motionless upon the highest twigs; only out of the far depths of the forest, the campanero gave its solemn toll, once, twice, thrice, like a great death-knell rolling down from far cathedral towers.
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Each church has its campanero who is responsible for ringing the bells.
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And while I thus sat thinking, sadly enough, but not despondingly, of past and present and future, all at once on the warm, still air came the resonant, far-reaching KLING-KLANG of the campanero from some leafy summit half a league away.
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It is another species of the cotinga -- the well-known campanero, or bell-bird.
The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America
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I could not resist the opportunity offered of acquiring the campanero.
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From eleven to three all nature is hushed as in a midnight silence, and scarce a note is heard, saving that of the campanero and the pi-pi-yo; it is then that, oppressed by the solar heat, the birds retire to the thickest shade and wait for the refreshing cool of evening.
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The fifth species is the celebrated campanero of the Spaniards, called dara by the Indians, and bell-bird by the English.
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With many of the feathered race he pays the common tribute of a morning and an evening song; and even when the meridian sun has shut in silence the mouths of almost the whole of animated nature the campanero still cheers the forest.
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No sound or song from any of the winged inhabitants of the forest, not even the clearly pronounced "Whip-poor-will" from the goat-sucker, cause such astonishment as the toll of the campanero.
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This was the only opportunity I had of getting a campanero during this expedition.
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