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▪ I. macaw1|məˈkɔː|
Also 7 machao, 7–8 macao, 7–9 maccaw, 8 maccau, 8–9 mackaw.
[a. Pg. macao, of obscure origin; a Tupi name for the bird is macavuana.
Cf. Sp. ‘máca, a Bird in the Province of Quito, in South-America, less than our Cocks, with a long Bill Red and Yellow, and its Feathers of such Variety of Colours as is admirable’ (Pineda, 1740).]
1. The name for several species of large long-tailed birds of the parrot kind constituting the genus Ara; they inhabit tropical and subtropical America and are remarkable for their gaudy plumage.
1668Charleton Onomasticon Zoicon 66 Great blew and yellow Parrat called the Machao, or Cockatoon. a1672Willughby Ornithol. 11. xi. (1676) 73 Psittacus maximus alter Aldrov. Angl. Maccaw, seu Macao & Cockatoon. 1703W. Dampier Voy. (1729) III. 1. 405 The Red Maccaw. 1707W. Funnell Voy. iv. 70 The Maccaw..is about the bigness of a Hawk. 1788New Lond. Mag. 61 The larger Psittaci are called Macaos. 1802Bingley Anim. Biog. (1813) II. 75 The Brasilian Green Macaw. 1821–30Ld. Cockburn Mem. v. (1874) 257 [He] was walking..dressed like a mackaw, as the Commissioner's purse-bearer. 1870Disraeli Lothair xxxv, Upon gilt and painted perches also there were..macaws.
†2. Applied (?erron.) to some oriental bird. Obs.
1699W. Dampier Voy. II. 1. 128 In the [Achin] Woods there are many sorts of wild Fowls, viz. Maccaws, Parrots [etc.].
3. attrib., as macaw tribe; † macaw-fish, some brightly coloured fish (cf. parrot-fish).
1753Chambers Cycl. Supp. s.v., With some it [cockatoon] is made the synonymous name of all the Macaw tribe. 1792M. Riddell Voy. Madeira 69 The parrot-fish, the macaw-fish.
▪ II. macaw2|məˈkɔː|
Also 7 macow, 7–8 maccaw, 8–9 mackaw, 9 macca-.
[Prob. repr. one or more Carib words; cf. Arawak (Guiana) mocaya, macoya, the macaw-palm.]
The West Indian name for palms of the genus Acrocomia; formerly also † the fruit of these palms. Now only attrib. in macaw-berry, macaw-palm, macaw-tree; also macaw-bush, a West Indian plant, Solanum mammosum (Treas. Bot. 1866); macaw-fat, a West Indian name for the Oil Palm, Elæis guineensis.
1657R. Ligon Barbados 72 The Macow is one of the strangest trees the Iland affords. 1672R. Blome Jamaica, etc. 73 [Descr. Barbadoes] Limes, Lemons, Macows, Grapes [etc.]. 1697W. Dampier Voy. (1698) I. ii. 20 We got Macaw-berries..wherewith we satisfied ourselves this day, though coursly. 1699L. Wafer Voy. 16 We found there a Maccaw tree, which afforded us berries, of which we eat greedily. Ibid. 20 This being the 7th Day of our Fast, save only the Maccaw-berries before related. 1756P. Browne Jamaica 343 The Mackaw Tree..is very common in most of the sugar-colonies. 1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, Macaw-fat, a West Indian name for oil palm, Elais Guineensis. Macaw-palm, the Acrocomia sclerocarpa of Martius. 1864Grisebach Flora W. Ind. 785 Mackaw Tree, Acrocomia sclerocarpa. 1882J. Smith Dict. Pop. Names Plants, Macaw Palm or Gru-Gru (Acrocomia fusiformis). 1894Outing (U.S.) XXIII. 380/2 The oil palm or macca-fat. |