gallinacean

Noun
  1. Heavy-bodied largely ground-feeding domestic or game birds (synset 101792027)
    is a type of: bird - warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings
    subtypes:
    • domestic fowl, fowl, poultry - a domesticated gallinaceous bird thought to be descended from the red jungle fowl
    • gallina, jungle fowl - small Asiatic wild bird; believed to be ancestral to domestic fowl
    • agriocharis ocellata, ocellated turkey - wild turkey of Central America and northern South America
    • guan - any of several large turkey-like game birds of the family Cracidae; native to jungles of tropical America; resembling the curassows and valued as food
    • curassow - large crested arboreal game bird of warm parts of the Americas having long legs and tails; highly esteemed as game and food
    • chachalaca - slender arboreal guan resembling a wild turkey; native to Central America and Mexico; highly regarded as game birds
    • megapode, mound bird, mound builder, mound-bird, scrub fowl - large-footed short-winged birds of Australasia; build mounds of decaying vegetation to incubate eggs
    • hoactzin, hoatzin, opisthocomus hoazin, stinkbird - crested ill-smelling South American bird whose young have claws on the first and second digits of the wings
    • columbiform bird - a cosmopolitan order of land birds having small heads and short legs with four unwebbed toes
    • game bird - any bird (as grouse or pheasant) that is hunted for sport
    belongs to: galliformes, order galliformes - pheasants; turkeys; grouse; partridges; quails; chickens; brush turkeys; curassows; hoatzins
    has: cockscomb, comb, coxcomb - the fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds
    same as: gallinaceous bird

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