English > gallinacean: 1 sense > noun 1, animal| Meaning | Heavy-bodied largely ground-feeding domestic or game birds. |
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| Synonym | gallinaceous bird |
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| Member of | Galliformes, order Galliformes | pheasants |
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| Parts | comb, cockscomb, coxcomb | The fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds |
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| Narrower | chachalaca | slender arboreal guan resembling a wild turkey |
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| columbiform bird | A cosmopolitan order of land birds having small heads and short legs with four unwebbed toes |
| curassow | large crested arboreal game bird of warm parts of the Americas having long legs and tails |
| domestic fowl, fowl, poultry | A domesticated gallinaceous bird thought to be descended from the red jungle fowl |
| game bird | Any bird (as grouse or pheasant) that is hunted for sport |
| guan | Any of several large turkey-like game birds of the family Cracidae |
| hoatzin, hoactzin, stinkbird, Opisthocomus hoazin | crested ill-smelling South American bird whose young have claws on the first and second digits of the wings |
| jungle fowl, gallina | small Asiatic wild bird |
| megapode, mound bird, mound-bird, mound builder, scrub fowl | large-footed short-winged birds of Australasia |
| ocellated turkey, Agriocharis ocellata | wild turkey of Central America and northern South America |
| Broader | bird | warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings |
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| Spanish | gallináceo |
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| Catalan | gal·linaci |
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| Adjectives | gallinaceous | of or relating to or resembling a gallinacean |
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