cracid

English

Crax fasciolata (bare-faced curassow), a cracid

Adjective

cracid (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to birds of the taxonomic family Cracidae.

Noun

cracid (plural cracids)

1. (zoology) Any bird of the family Cracidae.
   • 1982 May 20, Jeremy Charfas, “Proving the pattern of life”, in New Scientist, number 1306, page 485:

     Indeed, if anything it^{[the chachalaca]} is further from the Galliformes than the duck; but because of the slight uncertainties in the method Prager and Wilson argued for a three-way split between ducks, cracids, and non-cracid galliforms.

   • 2012, Storrs L. Olson, “Chapter 2: The Fossil Record of Birds”, in Donald Farner, editor, Avian Biology, volume 3, page 115:

     Cracraft (1973b, p. 507) asserted that Gallinuloides was closer to phasianids than cracids, but never presented evidence to substantiate his claim.

   • 2013, Erik Hirschfeld, Andy Swash, Robert Still, The World's Rarest Birds, page 278:

     Two of the five Galliform families, the cracids (guans, curassows and chachalacas) and the New World quails, are confined to the Americas, with most species in Central and especially South America.