anhima

See also: Anhima

English

Etymology

From a Tupian word of the form nha um, meaning "black bird" (compare nhandu, una).

Noun

anhima (plural anhimas)

  1. A South American aquatic bird; the horned screamer or kamichi (Anhima cornuta).

Alternative forms
  • anhuma

Translations
kamichi — see kamichi

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for anhima in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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