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limpkin|ˈlɪmpkɪn|
[f. limp v.2 + -kin; the bird's movements resemble those of a limping man.]
A name for the genus Aramus of birds, holding a place midway between the Cranes and the Rails; called also courlan. (See quot.)
1885Riverside Nat. Hist. (1888) IV. 127 The family of the limpkins or courlans is a very small one, consisting only of one genus of two species... Aramus pictus is restricted to Central America, the West Indies, and southern Florida. A. scolopaceus inhabits eastern South America. |