hoatzin
A hoatzin
Meaning
Noun
- A bird, Opisthocomus hoazin, with claws on the wing fingers of the juvenile and an enlarged crop used as a rumen.
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Origin
- From Nahuatl huactzin (which probably designated a different bird).
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