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Macaw   /məkˈɔ/   Listen
Macaw

noun
1.
Long-tailed brilliantly colored parrot of Central America and South America; among the largest and showiest of parrots.





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"Macaw" Quotes from Famous Books



... the truth, not half so useful as the disgusting vulture of whom we have been speaking. This picture represents a cockatoo, one of the parrot tribe, of which there are at least 250 species, including, besides this, the parrot, macaw, lory, ...
— Mamma's Stories about Birds • Anonymous (AKA the author of "Chickseed without Chickweed")
... the sun, the day; ich, the face, but generally the eye or eyes; kak, fire; mo, the brilliant plumaged, sacred bird, the ara or guacamaya, the red macaw. This was adopted as the title of the ruler of Itzamal, as we learn from the Chronicle of Chichen Itza—"Ho ahau paxci u cah yahau ah Itzmal Kinich Kakmo"—"In the fifth Age the town (of Chichen Itza) was destroyed by King Kinich Kakmo, of Itzamal." El Libro de Chilan Balam ...
— American Hero-Myths - A Study in the Native Religions of the Western Continent • Daniel G. Brinton


Words linked to "Macaw" :   genus Ara, Ara, parrot


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