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Hoatzin

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Noun

1. hoactzin, hoatzin, opisthocomus hoazin, stinkbird

crested ill-smelling South American bird whose young have claws on the first and second digits of the wings

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Hoatzin

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noun
a unique South American gallinaceous bird, Opisthocomus hoazin, with a brownish plumage, a very small crested head, and clawed wing digits in the young: family Opisthocomidae

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Hoatzin

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noun
a crested South American bird (Opisthocomus hoazin) of an order (Opisthocomiformes) with only one species: the wings of its young have claws

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Hoatzin

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n.
A crested bird (Opisthocomus hoazin) of tropical South America having brown and buff plumage and a blue face. Juveniles have claws on the first and second digits of the wings.

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