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Curassow
Cu-ras′sow
(k?-r?s′s?)
, Noun.
[Native name in Brazil.]
(Zool.)
A large gallinaceous bird of the American genera
Crax
, Ourax
, etc., of the family Cracidæ
. ☞ The crested curassow (
Crax alector
) is black, and about the size of a small hen-turkey, with an erectile crest of curled feathers. It ranges from Mexico to Brazil. The galeated curassow or cushew bird (Ourax Pauxi
) is similar in size, and has a large, hollow, blue, pear-shaped protuberance on the head. Definition 2024
curassow
curassow
English
A curassow
Noun
curassow (plural curassows)
- Any of several species of bird in the genera Nothocrax, Mitu, Pauxi, and Crax of the Cracidae family, limited to the Americas.
Derived terms
- Alagoas curassow
- bare-faced curassow
- black curassow
- blue-knobbed curassow
- crestless curassow
- great curassow
- nocturnal curassow
- northern helmeted curassow
- razor-billed curassow
- red-knobbed curassow
- Salvin's curassow
- southern helmeted curassow
- wattled curassow
- yellow-knobbed curassow