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guan|gwɑːn|
Also 8 quan, 9 guam.
[prob. a native name.]
One of a family or subfamily (Pelopinæ, Newton) of gallinaceous birds of South America, allied to the curassows.
1743G. Edwards Nat. Hist. I. 13 The Quan or Guan, so called in the West Indies..is a little bigger than a common Hen. 1827O. W. Roberts Centr. Amer. 228 He fired at three guams, each as large as a turkey-cock. 1852Th. Ross Humboldt's Trav. II. xxiv. 444 Large birds, a guan (pava de monte) for instance, or a curassao (alector), when wounded in the thigh, die in two or three minutes. 1895C. Dixon in Fortn. Rev. Apr. 645 The Cracidæ or curassows and guans, with fifty-three species. |