waracabra

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English

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Etymology

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From Lokono warakaba.

Noun

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waracabra (plural waracabras)

  1. (Guyana) trumpeter (bird)
    • 1929, Alpheus Hyatt Verrill, Thirty Years in the Jungle, page 115:
      [] it may be a lithe, graceful ocelot, so intent on stalking an unsuspecting bush-turkey or a sleepy monkey that your nearness is unnoticed; or again it may be a flock of trumpet-birds or waracabras feeding and dancing in some tiny open glade.
    • 1953, Robert H. Pierson, Paddles Over the Kamarang: The Story of the Davis Indians, page 7:
      Frequently the growling of our lorry would frighten up coveys of waracabra—black jungle birds somewhat resembling guinea fowls, but with larger and longer legs.
    • 2011 September 18, “Grey-winged Trumpeter”, in Stabroek News[1]:
      The Grey-winged Trumpeter (Psophia crepitans) is distributed north of the Amazon River, in Ecuador, Colombia, south Venezuela, north-east Brazil, north-eastern Peru and the Guianas. Locally the species is known as ‘Waracabra‘.

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