Cracid

adj, noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Any bird of the family Cracidae.

    "Indeed, if anything it^([the chachalaca]) is further from the Galliformes than the duck; but because of the slight uncertainties in the method Prager and Wilson argued for a three-way split between ducks, cracids, and non-cracid galliforms."

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of or pertaining to birds of the taxonomic family Cracidae. not-comparable

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"Indeed, if anything it^([the chachalaca]) is further from the Galliformes than the duck; but because of the slight uncertainties in the method Prager and Wilson argued for a three-way split between ducks, cracids, and non-cracid galliforms."

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