Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The horned screamer, Palamedea cornuta. Also written kamachi, kamechi.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A curious South American bird (
Anhima orPalamedea cornuta ), often domesticated by the natives and kept with poultry, which it defends against birds of prey. It has a long, slender, hornlike ornament on its head, and two sharp spurs on each wing. Although its beak, feet, and legs resemble those of gallinaceous birds, it is related in anatomical characters to the ducks and geese (Anseres). Called alsohorned screamer . The name is sometimes applied also to thechaja . Seechaja , andscreamer .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun zoology A
South American bird with a long, slender,horn -like ornament on its head and two sharpspurs on eachwing .
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Examples
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I had no friendly feeling for the hippopotamus, the kamichi, or horned screamer, and the zebu, who aimed at making me say H, K and
The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography Jean-Henri Fabre 1869
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It was, we found, the anhima of the Brazils, known also as the horned kamichi, or, more learnedly, _Palamedea_.
On the Banks of the Amazon William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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Brazilians, or the horned screamer of Cuvier -- called also the kamichi.
The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
reesetee commented on the word kamichi
The Horned Screamer (Palamedea cornuta), a bird native to Guiana and the Amazon.
October 23, 2008
bilby commented on the word kamichi
Is there a good word for selective, non-holistic bracketing?
October 23, 2008
reesetee commented on the word kamichi
Heehee. Here: Horned Screamer. But I'm sure I'm too late.
October 23, 2008