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guan

(gwän)

Any of several large game birds of the family Cracidae, native to tropical forests of Central and South America and resembling the curassows.

[American Spanish, from Kuna (Chibchan language of Panama and northern Colombia) kwama or Miskito kwamu or a kindred indigenous source.]

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guan

(ɡwɑːn)

(Animals) any gallinaceous bird of the genera Penelope, Pipile, etc, of Central and South America: family Cracidae (curassows)

[C18: from American Spanish]

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guan

(gwɑn)

n.

any of various long-tailed gallinaceous birds of the family Cracidae, inhabiting New World tropical forests.

[1735–45; < one or more American Indian languages of the Caribbean coast]

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Noun

guan - any of several large turkey-like game birds of the family Cracidae; native to jungles of tropical America; resembling the curassows and valued as food

gallinacean, gallinaceous bird - heavy-bodied largely ground-feeding domestic or game birds

Cracidae, family Cracidae - curassows; guans; chachalacas

piping guan - a kind of guan

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