jacun.
/dʒəˈkuː/ A large, turkey-like, South American game bird of the genus Penelope, esp. P. marail or P. jacquacu; cf. guan n.
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1824 H. E. Lloyd tr. J. B. von Spix & C. F. P. von Martius Trav. Brazil II. iv. ii. 227 Several species of wood-hens, particularly the pretty Jacú (Penelope Marail, leucoptera).
1876 Encycl. Brit. IV. 227/2 The gallinaceous jacús, the hoccus, and different kinds of pigeons, haunt the woods [of Brazil].
1933 P. Fleming Brazilian Adventure i. xvi. 137 There were a lot of the birds called jacú, a kind of stringy, dowdy pheasant with subfusc plumage.
1964 A. L. Thomson New Dict. Birds 175/2 There are 12 species of guans, some of them with the names ‘jacu’ and ‘camata’.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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