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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of several dragoon-birds, or South American fruit-crows, of the genus Cephalopterus: so called from the radiating crest which overshadows the head, as in
C. ornatus , C. penduliger, and C. glabricollis.
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- noun black tropical American bird having a large overhanging crest and long feathered wattle
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