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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The thread-fin, Polydactylus virginicus.
  • noun A name, derived from Buffon and other French naturalists, equivalent to barbet in any of the senses of the latter, as applied to birds either of the family Bucconidæ or family Capitonidæ. See these words, and barbet.
  • noun plural The birds of the family Capitonidæ alone, as distinguished from the Bucconidæ.

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  • noun found along western Atlantic coast

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