a Central American bird that has brilliant blue, green, red, and gold plumage, a rounded hairlike crest on the head, and, in the male, very long upper tail feathers: Pharomachrus mocinno
the basic monetary unit of Guatemala, divided into 100 centavos
[American Spanish quetzal from Nahuatl quetzaltototl, from quetzalli brilliant tail feather + tototl bird]