GALLINACEAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gallinacean mean? 

• GALLINACEAN (noun)
  The noun GALLINACEAN has 1 sense:

1. heavy-bodied largely ground-feeding domestic or game birds

  Familiarity information: GALLINACEAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GALLINACEAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Heavy-bodied largely ground-feeding domestic or game birds

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

gallinacean; gallinaceous bird

Hypernyms ("gallinacean" is a kind of...):

bird (warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings)

Meronyms (parts of "gallinacean"):

cockscomb; comb; coxcomb (the fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gallinacean"):

domestic fowl; fowl; poultry (a domesticated gallinaceous bird thought to be descended from the red jungle fowl)

gallina; jungle fowl (small Asiatic wild bird; believed to be ancestral to domestic fowl)

Agriocharis ocellata; ocellated turkey (wild turkey of Central America and northern South America)

guan (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)

curassow (large crested arboreal game bird of warm parts of the Americas having long legs and tails; highly esteemed as game and food)

chachalaca (slender arboreal guan resembling a wild turkey; native to Central America and Mexico; highly regarded as game birds)

megapode; mound-bird; mound bird; mound builder; scrub fowl (large-footed short-winged birds of Australasia; build mounds of decaying vegetation to incubate eggs)

hoactzin; hoatzin; Opisthocomus hoazin; stinkbird (crested ill-smelling South American bird whose young have claws on the first and second digits of the wings)

columbiform bird (a cosmopolitan order of land birds having small heads and short legs with four unwebbed toes)

game bird (any bird (as grouse or pheasant) that is hunted for sport)

Holonyms ("gallinacean" is a member of...):

Galliformes; order Galliformes (pheasants; turkeys; grouse; partridges; quails; chickens; brush turkeys; curassows; hoatzins)