cracid
adj 1noun 1
Definitions
adj
1
Of or pertaining to birds of the taxonomic family Cracidae.
noun
1
Any bird of the family Cracidae.
Indeed, if anything it^([the chachalaca]) is further from the Galliformes than the duck; but because of the slight uncertainties in the method Prager and Wilson argued for a three-way split between ducks, cracids, and non-cracid galliforms.
Cracraft (1973b, p. 507) asserted that Gallinuloides was closer to phasianids than cracids, but never presented evidence to substantiate his claim.
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