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COTINGA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Passerine bird of New World tropics
Synonyms:
chatterer; cotinga
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("cotinga" is a kind of...):
flycatcher; New World flycatcher; tyrant bird; tyrant flycatcher (large American birds that characteristically catch insects on the wing)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cotinga"):
cock of the rock; Rupicola rupicola (tropical bird of northern South America the male having brilliant red or orange plumage and an erectile disklike crest)
cock of the rock; Rupicola peruviana (bird of the Andes similar to Rupicola rupicola)
bellbird (any of several tropical American birds of the genus Procnias having a bell-like call)
Cephalopterus ornatus; umbrella bird (black tropical American bird having a large overhanging crest and long feathered wattle)
Holonyms ("cotinga" is a member of...):
genus Cotinga (type genus of the Cotingidae: cotingas)
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