pauraque

[ pou-rah-key; Spanish pou-rah-ke ]

noun,plural pau·ra·ques [pou-rah-keyz; Spanish pou-rah-kes]. /paʊˈrɑ keɪz; Spanish paʊˈrɑ kɛs/.
  1. a large, tropical American goatsucker, Nyctidromus albicollis.

Origin of pauraque

1
First recorded in 1905–10; presumably Hispanicized spelling of a word < a language of tropical America

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