Definition of gallinaceous bird Gallinaceous bird
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| gallinaceous bird - heavy-bodied largely ground-feeding domestic or game birds | ||
| gallinacean | ||
| 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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