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jacu|dʒəˈkuː|
[Pg., f. Tupi jacú.]
A large, turkey-like, South American game bird of the genus Penelope, esp. P. marail or P. jacquacu; cf. guan.
1824H. E. Lloyd tr. Spix & Martius's Trav. Brazil II. iv. ii. 227 Several species of wood-hens, particularly the pretty Jacú (Penelope Marail, leucoptera). 1876Encycl. Brit. IV. 227/2 The gallinaceous jacús, the hoccus, and different kinds of pigeons, haunt the woods [of Brazil]. 1933P. Fleming Brazilian Adv. i. xvi. 137 There were a lot of the birds called jacú, a kind of stringy, dowdy pheasant with subfusc plumage. 1964A. L. Thomson New Dict. Birds 175/2 There are 12 species of guans, some of them with the names ‘jacu’ and ‘camata’. |