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chachalaca /ˌtʃatʃəˈlakə /nounA pheasant-like tree-dwelling bird of the guan family, found mainly in the forests of tropical America.- Genus Ortalis, family Cracidae.
Guans and perhaps chachalacas may be more arboreal than curassows....- More likely to be seen or heard on the plateau is the little chachalaca, a gallinaceous bird named in part for its noisy call.
- Then came the chachalacas, the chickenlike birds we'd seen the previous day, whose call, I had been promised, I would never forget.
Origin Late 19th century: via South American Spanish from Nahuatl, of imitative origin. |