coscoroba

English

Etymology

Not certain. From a local South American (perhaps specifically Chilean) name,[1] which probably entered English via Spanish; perhaps related to Tupi casaroba, saroba.[2][3]

Noun

coscoroba (plural coscorobas)

A bird of the genus Coscoroba.
- 1950, Parks & Recreation:
  Their bills and legs are pink. The two babies are very light grey with dark markings. The coscorobas built a nest in February with twigs and brush provided by their keepers. The female laid two eggs, but one rolled into the pool and the other [...]
- 1969, Sidney Dillon Ripley, A paddling of ducks:
  The coscorobas have a wonderfully detached, rather languid manner of rising from the water and flying, well befitting their aristocratic air. Graceful, too, in their smaller proportion were the brown or Chilean pintails, [...]
- 1972, Animal Kingdom:
  The history of the coscorobas at the Bronx Zoo is of particular interest because they were among the earliest acquisitions to the society's bird collection; four coscorobas from Brazil arrived on October 2, 1899, just a little over one month before [...]
- 1977, National Zoological Park (U.S.), Annual Report - National Zoological Park:
  The blacks produced four cygnets, the black-necks three, and the coscorobas six. Only one black swan cygnet died. Two coscoroba cygnets, unable to compete with their siblings, were taken at 28 days and hand-reared.

References

James A. Jobling, Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names (2010, →ISBN), page 120: coscoroba Local Chilean name
The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1914
Karl Friedrich Philipp von Martius's 1863 Glossaria linguarum brasiliensium also compared casaroba, saroba to picaçuroba, but that name is said to have a different derivation in the Arquivos de zoologia do estado de São Paulo (1951), volume 7, page 249: "Esta denominação, que deriva do gosto peculiar da carne, é hoje em dia ainda a mais comum; ela corresponde precisamente ao nome túpico picaçuroba (de picaçu, pomba e rob, amargo)."

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[1] James A. Jobling, Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names (2010, →ISBN), page 120: coscoroba Local Chilean name

[2] The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1914

[3] Karl Friedrich Philipp von Martius's 1863 Glossaria linguarum brasiliensium also compared casaroba, saroba to picaçuroba, but that name is said to have a different derivation in the Arquivos de zoologia do estado de São Paulo (1951), volume 7, page 249: "Esta denominação, que deriva do gosto peculiar da carne, é hoje em dia ainda a mais comum; ela corresponde precisamente ao nome túpico picaçuroba (de picaçu, pomba e rob, amargo)."