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oilbird

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The guacharo or great goatsucker of Trinidad, Steatornis caripensis. Also called fat-bird. See cut under guacharo.
  • noun A Ceylonese frogmouth, Batrachostomus moniliger.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.) See guacharo.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Steatornis caripensis, a nocturnal South American bird related to the nightjars that feeds on the fruit of the oil palm and tropical laurels.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun nocturnal fruit-eating bird of South America that has fatty young yielding an oil that is used instead of butter

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  1. caprimulgiform bird

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Variants

  1. guacharo

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  • reesetee commented on the word oilbird

    See also guácharo.

    March 14, 2008