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Guan

noun

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.

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"Guan" Quotes from Famous Books

... usually a sign of the Active Verb, as in mtzguan, I begin: mguan, or mhuan, I plough, and is added by the natives to some Spanish words they use, such are perdonroguan, I pardon; ayunroguan, I fast; velroguan, I watch. Some form the perfect in guari, and future in guatze; others the perfect in uhri, ...

— Grammatical Sketch of the Heve Language - Shea's Library Of American Linguistics. Volume III. • Buckingham Smith

Words linked to "Guan" : piping guan, gallinaceous bird, family Cracidae, gallinacean, Cracidae