Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A Spanish name of the South American bell-birds, as the arapunga and others of the genus Chasmorhynchus: so called from the bell-like sound of their voice. See arapunga.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.) The bellbird of South America. See bellbird.

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  • noun The bellbird of South America.

Etymologies

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Spanish, a bellman.

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Examples

  • He looked up and round; the birds had ceased to chirp; the parroquets were hiding behind the leaves; the monkeys were clustered motionless upon the highest twigs; only out of the far depths of the forest, the campanero gave its solemn toll, once, twice, thrice, like a great death-knell rolling down from far cathedral towers.

    Westward Ho! 2007

  • And while I thus sat thinking, sadly enough, but not despondingly, of past and present and future, all at once on the warm, still air came the resonant, far-reaching KLING-KLANG of the campanero from some leafy summit half a league away.

    Green Mansions 2004

  • Each church has its campanero who is responsible for ringing the bells.

    Guanajuato's sonic landscape 2001

  • Each church has its campanero who is responsible for ringing the bells.

    Guanajuato's sonic landscape 2001

  • And while I thus sat thinking, sadly enough, but not despondingly, of past and present and future, all at once on the warm, still air came the resonant, far-reaching KLING-KLANG of the campanero from some leafy summit half a league away.

    Green Mansions: a romance of the tropical forest 1881

  • It is another species of the cotinga -- the well-known campanero, or bell-bird.

    The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

  • He looked up and round; the birds had ceased to chirp; the parroquets were hiding behind the leaves; the monkeys were clustered motionless upon the highest twigs; only out of the far depths of the forest, the campanero gave its solemn toll, once, twice, thrice, like a great death-knell rolling down from far cathedral towers.

    Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth Charles Kingsley 1847

  • I could not resist the opportunity offered of acquiring the campanero.

    Wanderings in South America Charles Waterton 1823

  • From eleven to three all nature is hushed as in a midnight silence, and scarce a note is heard, saving that of the campanero and the pi-pi-yo; it is then that, oppressed by the solar heat, the birds retire to the thickest shade and wait for the refreshing cool of evening.

    Wanderings in South America Charles Waterton 1823

  • The fifth species is the celebrated campanero of the Spaniards, called dara by the Indians, and bell-bird by the English.

    Wanderings in South America Charles Waterton 1823

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