gallinacean

gal·li·na·ceous

G0020400 (găl′ə-nā′shəs)adj. Of, belonging to, or characteristic of the order Galliformes, which includes poultry, pheasants, and grouse.

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[From Latin gallīnāceus, of poultry, from gallīna, hen, feminine of gallus, cock; see gal- in Indo-European roots.]

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gal′li·na′cean n.

gallinacean

(ˌɡælɪˈneɪʃən) n (Animals) any gallinaceous bird

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gallinacean - heavy-bodied largely ground-feeding domestic or game birdsgallinaceous birdbird - warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wingsGalliformes, order Galliformes - pheasants; turkeys; grouse; partridges; quails; chickens; brush turkeys; curassows; hoatzinsdomestic fowl, fowl, poultry - a domesticated gallinaceous bird thought to be descended from the red jungle fowlgallina, jungle fowl - small Asiatic wild bird; believed to be ancestral to domestic fowlcomb, coxcomb, cockscomb - the fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birdsAgriocharis ocellata, ocellated turkey - wild turkey of Central America and northern South Americaguan - any of several large turkey-like game birds of the family Cracidae; native to jungles of tropical America; resembling the curassows and valued as foodcurassow - large crested arboreal game bird of warm parts of the Americas having long legs and tails; highly esteemed as game and foodchachalaca - slender arboreal guan resembling a wild turkey; native to Central America and Mexico; highly regarded as game birdsmegapode, mound bird, mound-bird, scrub fowl, mound builder - large-footed short-winged birds of Australasia; build mounds of decaying vegetation to incubate eggshoactzin, hoatzin, Opisthocomus hoazin, stinkbird - crested ill-smelling South American bird whose young have claws on the first and second digits of the wingscolumbiform bird - a cosmopolitan order of land birds having small heads and short legs with four unwebbed toesgame bird - any bird (as grouse or pheasant) that is hunted for sport