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kagus

[kah-goo]

noun

a raillike bird, Rhinochetus jubatus, of the island of New Caledonia, having a gray body, black-and-white wings, and a long, shaggy crest: an endangered species.

Origin:
1860–65; < a language of New Caledonia

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