Definition of gallinacean Gallinacean

gal•li•na•cean

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Noun

gallinacean - heavy-bodied largely ground-feeding domestic or game birds
  gallinaceous bird
  bird warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings
  galliformes, order galliformes pheasants; turkeys; grouse; partridges; quails; chickens; brush turkeys; curassows; hoatzins
  domestic fowl, fowl, poultry a domesticated gallinaceous bird thought to be descended from the red jungle fowl
  gallina, jungle fowl small Asiatic wild bird; believed to be ancestral to domestic fowl
  coxcomb, cockscomb, comb a conceited dandy who is overly impressed by his own accomplishments
  agriocharis ocellata, ocellated turkey wild turkey of Central America and northern South America
  guan any of several large turkey-like game birds of the family Cracidae; native to jungles of tropical America; resembling the curassows and valued as food
  curassow large crested arboreal game bird of warm parts of the Americas having long legs and tails; highly esteemed as game and food
  chachalaca slender arboreal guan resembling a wild turkey; native to Central America and Mexico; highly regarded as game birds
  megapode, mound-bird, mound bird, scrub fowl, mound builder large-footed short-winged birds of Australasia; build mounds of decaying vegetation to incubate eggs
  hoactzin, hoatzin, opisthocomus hoazin, stinkbird crested ill-smelling South American bird whose young have claws on the first and second digits of the wings
  columbiform bird a cosmopolitan order of land birds having small heads and short legs with four unwebbed toes
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  • gallinacean (n.)
    One of the Gallinae or gallinaceous birds.

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