Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of Cracidæ established by Temminck in 1815, having a large galea or casque; the galeated curassows.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A curassow (
Ourax pauxi ), which, in South America, is often domesticated.
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- noun A
curassow (Ourax pauxi), oftendomesticated inSouth America .
Etymologies
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Examples
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In the western portion the endemic rusty-flanked crake (Laterallus levraudi) and the northern helmeted curassow (Pauxi pauxi), common to other ecoregions, are vulnerable and endangered respectively.
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[* The latter (Crax pauxi) is less common than the former.]
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Its banks are inhabited by an innumerable quantity of birds, among which the pauxi and the guacharaca, which may be called the turkeys and pheasants of those countries, are found to be the most useful.
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These macaws, whose plumage glows with vivid tints of purple, blue, and yellow, are a great ornament to the Indian farm-yards; they do not yield in beauty to the peacock, the golden pheasant, the pauxi, or the alector.
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America -- appears upon the shore; and now the hocco, * (* Ceyx alector, the peacock-pheasant; C. pauxi, the cashew-bird.) with its black plumage and tufted head, moves slowly along the sausos.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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(* The latter (Crax pauxi) is less common than the former.)
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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Its banks are inhabited by an innumerable quantity of birds, among which the pauxi and the guacharaca, which may be called the turkeys and pheasants of those countries, are found to be the most useful.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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Helmeted Curassow, Paujil Copete-de-piedra (Pauxi pauxi) 2 occurs in west Venezuela and north Colombia.
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Helmeted Curassow, Paujil Copete-de-piedra (Pauxi pauxi) 2 occurs in west Venezuela and north Colombia.
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Nominate pauxi was formerly common from the Cordillera de la Costa west to the Cordillera de Mérida,
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