Definitions
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- noun Plural form of
curassow .
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Examples
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Among the avifauna, harpy eagles (Harpia harpyja), curassows (Mitu selvini), and white-browned guans (Penelope jacucaca) are found.
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For example, on a number of Venezuelan ranches, yellow-raped curassows can be seen wandering around the cattle yards as if they were chickens. 7
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It might be possible to produce curassows in organized farming or ranching.
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The Indians distinguished the cries of sapagous, alouates, jaguars, cougars, peccaris, sloths, curassows, paraquas, and other birds, so that there must have been as full a forest chorus as Mr. Hullah himself could desire.
The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852
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When the great curassows reached the spot it was with a rush of wings that startled all the other creatures to the point of panic.
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It was not her first experience with the curassows but previously she had paid scant attention to them from the security of her perch in the spiny palm tree.
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A couple of curassows and a big monkey were killed by the colonel and Kermit.
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It was only on the rare occasions when we had killed some monkeys or curassows, or caught some fish, that everybody had enough.
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Half a dozen curassows of different species strolled through the rooms; there were also parrots of several different species, and immediately outside the house four or five herons, with unclipped wings, which would let us come within a few feet and then fly gracefully off, shortly afterward returning to the same spot.
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Half a dozen curassows of different species strolled through the rooms; there were also parrots of several different species, and immediately outside the house four or five herons, with unclipped wings, which would let us come within a few feet and then fly gracefully off, shortly afterward returning to the same spot.
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