hoatzin
a blue-faced, crested bird, Opisthocomus hoazin, of the Amazon and Orinoco forests, having as a nestling a large, temporary claw on the second and third digits of the forelimb, for climbing among the tree branches.
Origin of hoatzin
1- Also hoactzin.
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How to use hoatzin in a sentence
The other tribe is represented by that strange bird the hoatzin of the Amazon.
Birds in Flight | W. P. PycraftBut it is not nearly so long as in the hoatzin, and there is no terminal claw.
Birds in Flight | W. P. PycraftThe flight of the hoatzin resembles that of an over-fed hen.
Jungle Peace | William BeebeSuch is the normal right destiny of a hoatzin chick, and the whee-og!
Jungle Peace | William BeebeFor the young hoatzin is hatched in a nursery—a crude nest of sticks—placed on the boughs of a tree overhanging the water.
Birds in Flight | W. P. Pycraft
British Dictionary definitions for hoatzin
hoactzin
/ (həʊˈætsɪn) /
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
Origin of hoatzin
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