macaw

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   any of several large, long-tailed parrots native to Central and South America, usually with powerful bills and brightly colored plumage

   The scarlet macaw cracked the seed with its curved beak.

Borrowed through Portuguese macau from an Indigenous language of Brazil, although the exact source is uncertain. The word became a general English name for several genera of large American parrots.

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