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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- (Zoöl.) A large gallinule (
Gallicrex cristatus ) native of Australia, India, and the East Indies. In the breeding season the male is black and has a fleshy red caruncle, or horn, on the top of its head. Called alsokora .
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