homrain.
/ˈhəʊmrʌɪ/ A large black-and-white hornbill, Buceros bicornis, which is found from India to Sumatra.
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1832 B. H. Hodgson in Jrnl. Asiatic Soc. Bengal 1 251 The Homrâi reaches its full size in four and [sic] five years; it is gregarious and sedate.
1882 D. G. Elliot Monogr. Bucerotidæ at Dichoceros bicornis (heading) The Homrai.
1882 D. G. Elliot Monogr. Bucerotidæ at Dichoceros bicornis 3 The Nepaulese name for this species, ‘Homrai’, is derived from the notes it is accustomed to utter.
1905 Pall Mall Gaz. 24 Apr. 6/3 This curious bird (Dichoceros bicornis) is also known as ‘Homrai’.
1939 F. N. Chasen Birds of Malay Peninsula IV. 90 (heading) The Great or Homrai Hornbill.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online December 2018).
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