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guan
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun guan has 1 sense
- guan(n = noun.animal) Array - any of several large turkey-like game birds of the family Cracidae; native to jungles of tropical America; resembling the curassows and valued as food; Array is a kind of gallinacean, gallinaceous bird
is a member of cracidae, family cracidae
has particulars: piping guan
CIDE DICTIONARY
guan, n.
Any one of many species of large gallinaceous birds of Central and South America, belonging to Penelope , Pipile , Ortalis , and allied genera. Several of the species are often domesticated. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
guan, n. any of various game-birds of the family Cracidae, of tropical America.
Etymology
prob. f. a native name
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