opisthocomus hoazin

1. 1.

   crested ill-smelling South American bird whose young have claws on the first and second digits of the wings

   Synonymshoatzinhoactzinstinkbird

   Broadergallinaceous bird

   Part ofOpisthocomus

Questions about opisthocomus hoazin

What does opisthocomus hoazin mean?

opisthocomus hoazin means "crested ill-smelling South American bird whose young have claws on the first and second digits of the wings".

What is another word for opisthocomus hoazin?

Close synonyms include hoatzin, hoactzin, stinkbird. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is opisthocomus hoazin a common word?

opisthocomus hoazin is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.