单词 | hoatzin |
释义 | hoatzin /hoh at"sin, waht"sin/, n. a blue-faced, crested bird, Opisthocomus hoazin, of the Amazon and Orinoco forests, having as a nestling a large, temporary claw on the second and third digits of the forelimb, for climbing among the tree branches. Also, hoactzin. [1655-65; << Nahuatl huactzin, huahtzin name for several hen-sized birds of the Valley of Mexico, appar. applied indiscriminately by early naturalists to similar New World birds] |
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