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Definition of Horned screamer
1. Noun. Screamer having a hornlike process projecting from the forehead.
Definition of Horned screamer
1. Noun. ''Anhima cornuta,'' a South American bird, member of the ''Anhimidae'' family, with black upper parts, head and breast and white speckles on the crown, throat and wing coverts. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Horned Screamer
Literary usage of Horned screamer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Wanderings in South America, the North-west of the United States, and the by Charles Waterton (1879)
"horned screamer.—Trumpeter.—King Vulture.—Anhinga.—Dangers of travel.—Quartan ague.
... horned screamer ..."
2. Knowledge for the People, Or, The Plain why and Because: Or, the Plain why by John Timbs (1832)
"horned screamer. Because it may defend itself against some noxious animals which
infest ... Why has the. horned screamer two spurs on each wing ? BITTERN. ..."
3. Knowledge for the People: Or, The Plain why and Because by John Timbs (1844)
"horned screamer. ky has the horned screamer two spurs on each wing ? :ause it
may defend itself against some noxious ils which infest the native regions of ..."
4. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge edited by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1883)
"In the genus pala- horned screamer ... The horned screamer (P. cornuta, Linn.), or
kamichi, is larger than a goose, ..."
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