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Webster 1913 Edition
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.