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Definition of Chaja
1. Noun. Largest crested screamer; native to southern Brazil and Argentina.
Definition of Chaja
1. n. The crested screamer of Brazil (Palamedea, or Chauna, chavaria), so called in imitation of its notes; -- called also chauna, and faithful kamichi. It is often domesticated and is useful in guarding other poultry. See Kamichi.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chaja
Literary usage of Chaja
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Monthly Review by Charles William Wason (1834)
"Her sympathies are either warped or stifled; her heart is blighted, and her mind
degraded." In this town chaja ..."
2. Russia as it Really is by Carl Joubert (1905)
"He told me that chaja was ill, and would I go and see her. ... chaja had the
influenza badly, and it was some weeks before she recovered. ..."
3. Library of Universal History: Containing a Record of the Human Race from the by Israel Smith Clare (1897)
"... grant and withhold their requests, or to alter their conditions, at the wish
of his nobles, caused the failure of all these embassies. The Vizier chaja ..."
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