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- noun (Zoöl.) The crocodile bird.
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- noun The
crocodile bird .
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mollusque commented on the word pluvian
(n.) the crocodile bird; (adj.) rainy, rain-bringing.
May 15, 2008
mollusque commented on the word pluvian
The Pluvian does the Crocodile the service of picking his teeth.
--Louis Guillaume Figuier, 1873, Reptiles and birds, translated and adapted by P. Gillmore
May 15, 2008