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Gallinaceous bird   Listen
Gallinaceous bird

noun
1.
Heavy-bodied largely ground-feeding domestic or game birds.  Synonym: gallinacean.





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... male of the Chamaepetes unicolor (a large gallinaceous bird of America), the first primary wing-feather is arched towards the tip and is much more attenuated than in the female. In an allied bird, the Penelope nigra, Mr. Salvin observed a male, which, whilst it flew downwards "with outstretched wings, gave forth a kind of crashing rushing noise," ...
— The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex • Charles Darwin


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