| 单词 | gallinacean |
| 释义 | gallinacean (once / 2954828 pages) n WORD FAMILY gallinacean: gallinaceans USAGE EXAMPLESOn the ground are gallinaceans, jacuses, hocuses, and pigeons, that have left the perch to wander under the trees, in the moisture, for food. Anonymous, The Emigrant's Lost Son—or, Life Al...(2011) Cuvier, the great classifier, divides the feathered tribe into six orders—birds of prey, passerines, climbers, gallinaceans, wading, and web-footed birds. Gillmore, Parker, Adventures of a Young Naturalist(2010) So saying he gave vent to a cock-a-doodle-do which would have done honour to the proudest of gallinaceans. Verne, Jules, The Moon-Voyage(2010) n heavy-bodied largely ground-feeding domestic or game birds Syn|Hypo|Hyper gallinaceous bird domestic fowl, fowl, poultry a domesticated gallinaceous bird thought to be descended from the red jungle fowl gallina, jungle fowlsmall Asiatic wild bird; believed to be ancestral to domestic fowl Agriocharis ocellata, ocellated turkeywild turkey of Central America and northern South America guanany of several large turkey-like game birds of the family Cracidae; native to jungles of tropical America; resembling the curassows and valued as food curassowlarge crested arboreal game bird of warm parts of the Americas having long legs and tails; highly esteemed as game and food chachalacaslender arboreal guan resembling a wild turkey; native to Central America and Mexico; highly regarded as game birds megapode, mound bird, mound builder, mound-bird, scrub fowllarge-footed short-winged birds of Australasia; build mounds of decaying vegetation to incubate eggs Opisthocomus hoazin, hoactzin, hoatzin, stinkbirdcrested ill-smelling South American bird whose young have claws on the first and second digits of the wings columbiform birda cosmopolitan order of land birds having small heads and short legs with four unwebbed toes game birdany bird (as grouse or pheasant) that is hunted for sport Dorkingan English breed of large domestic fowl having five toes (the hind toe doubled) Plymouth Rockan American breed of domestic fowl Cornish, Cornish fowlEnglish breed of compact domestic fowl; raised primarily to crossbreed to produce roasters Rock Cornishsmall plump hybrid developed by crossbreeding Plymouth Rock and Cornish fowl game fowlany of several breeds reared for cockfighting cochin, cochin chinaAsian breed of large fowl with dense plumage and feathered legs jungle cockmale jungle fowl jungle henfemale jungle fowl Gallus gallus, red jungle fowla jungle fowl of southeastern Asia that is considered ancestral to the domestic fowl Gallus gallus, chickena domestic fowl bred for flesh or eggs; believed to have been developed from the red jungle fowl bantamany of various small breeds of fowl Meleagris gallopavo, turkeylarge gallinaceous bird with fan-shaped tail; widely domesticated for food grousepopular game bird having a plump body and feathered legs and feet piping guana kind of guan Ortilis vetula macalli, Texas chachalacaof Mexico and Texas Leipoa ocellata, leipoa, lowan, mallee fowlAustralian mound bird; incubates eggs naturally in sandy mounds Alectura lathami, brush turkeyblack megapode of wooded regions of Australia and New Guinea Macrocephalon maleo, maleoCelebes megapode that lays eggs in holes in sandy beaches phasianida kind of game bird in the family Phasianidae Numida meleagris, guinea, guinea fowla west African bird having dark plumage mottled with white; native to Africa but raised for food in many parts of the world partridge, tinamouheavy-bodied small-winged South American game bird resembling a gallinaceous bird but related to the ratite birds Raphus cucullatus, dodoextinct heavy flightless bird of Mauritius related to pigeons Pezophaps solitaria, solitaireextinct flightless bird related to the dodo pigeonwild and domesticated birds having a heavy body and short legs sand grouse, sandgrousepigeon-like bird of arid regions of the Old World having long pointed wings and tail and precocial downy young bird warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings |
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