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Gallinaceous

adjective

Of or relating to or resembling a gallinacean.

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"Gallinaceous" Quotes from Famous Books

... fact all South American, monkeys are climbers. There is no group answering to the baboons of the Old World, which live on the ground. The Gallinaceous birds of the country, the representatives of the fowls and pheasants of Asia and Africa, are all adapted by the position of the toes to perch on trees, and it is only on trees, at a great height, that they are to be seen. A genus of ...

— The Naturalist on the River Amazons • Henry Walter Bates

... are a small family of birds found only in Australia and the surrounding islands, but extending as far as the Philippines and Northwest Borneo. They are allied to the gallinaceous birds, but differ from these and from all others in never sitting upon their eggs, which they bury in sand, earth, or rubbish, and leave to be hatched by the heat of the sun or by fermentation. They are all characterised by very large feet and long curved claws, and most ...

— The Malay Archipelago - Volume I. (of II.) • Alfred Russel Wallace

Words linked to "Gallinaceous" : gallinacean