crested cariama

crested cariama
noun
Brazilian Cariama; sole representative of the genus Cariama
Syn: ↑seriema, ↑Cariama cristata
Hypernyms: ↑wading bird, ↑wader
Member Holonyms: ↑Cariama, ↑genus Cariama

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noun
: a cariama (Cariama cristata) of the campos of southern Brazil that is yellowish gray mottled with dark brown on the back and somewhat striped below and has a large frontal crest of stiff filamentous feathers

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