gallinacean

gal·li·na·ceous  (gl-nshs)

adj.

1. Of, belonging to, or characteristic of the order Galliformes, which includes the common domestic fowl as well as the pheasants, turkeys, and grouse.

2. Relating to or resembling the domestic fowl.

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[From Latin gallnceus, of poultry, from gallna, hen, feminine of gallus, cock; see gal- in Indo-European roots.]

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galli·nacean n.

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gallinacean [ˌgælɪˈneɪʃən]

n

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) any gallinaceous bird

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

gallinacean - heavy-bodied largely ground-feeding domestic or game birds gallinaceous bird bird - warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings Galliformes, order Galliformes - pheasants; turkeys; grouse; partridges; quails; chickens; brush turkeys; curassows; hoatzins 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 comb, coxcomb, cockscomb - the fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds 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, scrub fowl, mound builder - 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