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puffbird [ˈpʌfˌbɜːd]

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) any of various brownish tropical American birds of the family Bucconidae, having a large head: order Piciformes (woodpeckers, etc.)

[so called because of its habit of puffing out its feathers]

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puffbird - brownish tropical American bird having a large head with fluffed out feathers

piciform bird - any of numerous nonpasserine insectivorous climbing birds usually having strong bills for boring wood

Bucconidae, family Bucconidae - puffbirds

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