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macaw

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Definition:
Any parrot of the genus Sittace, or Macrocercus. About eighteen species are known, all of them American. They are large and have a very long tail, a strong hooked bill, and a naked space around the eyes. The voice is harsh, and the colors are brilliant and strongly contrasted.

Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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they tried to postpone the necessity of having to eat macaws, whose blue flesh had a harsh and musky taste.

Gabriel García Márquez. One Hundred Years of Solitude, p.11 (1970)
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Charlotte: How can a bird be talking?
Reynault: He is parrot.
Crackers: Actually, technically, I'm a macaw, which is actually a type of parrot, so I-I'm technically a parrot, actually. But I mean, technically, I'm you know ...
Pam: Rambling?

Adam Reed. Archer, season 9, Danger Island: Strange Pilot (2018)
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I noticed one of these servants, very tall, plumed with superb black locks, his face dyed in a tint that suggested rather certain species of rare birds than a human being, who, running without pause (and, one would have said, without purpose) from one end of the room to the other, made me think of one of those macaws which fill the big aviaries in zoological gardens with their gorgeous colouring and incomprehensible agitation.

Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 2]
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