Meaning of waracabra | Babel Free

Definitions

trumpeter (bird)

Guyana

Examples

“[…] it may be a lithe, graceful ocelot, so intent on stalking an unsuspecting bush-turkey or a sleepy monkey that your nearness is unnoticed; or again it may be a flock of trumpet-birds or waracabras feeding and dancing in some tiny open⟳ glade.”

“Frequently the growling of our lorry would frighten⟳ up coveys of waracabra—black jungle birds somewhat resembling guinea fowls, but with larger and longer legs.”

“The Grey-winged Trumpeter (Psophia crepitans) is distributed north of the Amazon River, in Ecuador, Colombia, south Venezuela, north-east Brazil, north-eastern Peru and the Guianas. Locally the species is known as ‘Waracabra‘.”

CEFR level