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单词 mituporanga
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mituporangan.

Forms: 1600s mituporanga, 1700s mitu-porangu.
Origin: A borrowing from Portuguese. Etymon: Portuguese mituporanga.
Etymology: < Brazilian Portuguese mituporanga, mutum-poranga black curassow < Tupi mytumporanga , mutumporanga < mytum mitu n. (compare mutum n.) + poranga lovely. Compare earlier mitu n. See also the following quotation:a1644 G. Marggraf Historiae Rerum Naturalium Brasiliae (1648) v. 195 Reperitur & alia ejusdem species, quam Mituporanga vocant Brasilienses, solo rostro & pennis capitis differens [etc.].
Ornithology. Obsolete.
A curassow, perhaps the black curassow, Crax alector. Cf. mitu n.
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the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > [noun] > family Cracidae > member of genus Crax (curassow)
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1678 J. Ray tr. F. Willughby Ornithol. ii. 161 The other Indian Cock of Aldrovandus, Mituporanga of Marggravius, Tepetototl of Nierembergius.
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Mitu, or Mitu-Porangu;..a Brasilian bird of the pheasant-kind, according to Marggrave,..but supposed by Mr. Ray, rather to approach to the nature of the peacock, or turkey-cock.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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