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curassow

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Noun
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cu=ras=sow

CIDE DICTIONARY

curassown. [Native name in Brazil.].
     A large gallinaceous bird of the American genera Crax, Ourax, etc., of the family Cracidæ.  [1913 Webster]
    " 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."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

curassow, n. any game bird of the family Cracidae, found in Central and S. America.

Etymology
Anglicized f. CURA{Ccedil}AO

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