chachalaca
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Late 19th century. From South American Spanish chachalaca, from Classical Nahuatl chachalacani (“tattler, gossiper”), from chāchalāni (“to make a hubbub, create an uproar”).
Noun[edit]
chachalaca (plural chachalacas)
- Any of several cracid birds, of the genus Ortalis, limited to the Americas, that resemble the guans.
Derived terms[edit]
- buff-browed chachalaca, Ortalis superciliaris
- Chaco chachalaca, Ortalis canicollis
- chestnut-winged chachalaca, Ortalis garrula
- Colombian chachalaca, Ortalis columbiana (subspecies of speckled chachalaca)
- grey-headed chachalaca, Ortalis cinereiceps
- little chachalaca, Ortalis motmot
- plain chachalaca, Ortalis vetula
- rufous-bellied chachalaca, Ortalis wagleri
- rufous-headed chachalaca, Ortalis erythroptera
- rufous-vented chachalaca, Ortalis ruficauda
- speckled chachalaca, chestnut-headed chachalaca, East Brazilian chachalaca, scaled chachalaca, Ortalis guttata
- West Mexican chachalaca, Ortalis poliocephala
- white-bellied chachalaca, Ortalis leucogastra
Translations[edit]
bird of the genus Ortalis
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Spanish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Classical Nahuatl chachalacani (“tattler, gossiper”), from chāchalāni (“to make a hubbub, create an uproar”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
chachalaca f (plural chachalacas)
- chachalaca (a type of bird)
- (colloquial, Mexico, Central America) babbler, yapper
- (colloquial, Guatemala) chatter
- (colloquial, El Salvador) chatty (said of a person)
Further reading[edit]
- “chachalaca”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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