cotinga
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of cotinga
1775–85; < New Latin < French < Tupi
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One is a small picture, which — remarkably — uses colored hummingbird, quetzal, cotinga and macaw feathers instead of paint.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 2, 2018
Usually, species such as the toucan and cotinga use their large beaks to eat the fruit, eventually spreading the seeds throughout the forest.
From BBC ● May 31, 2013
Its nest, its pallet, was of every kind of precious feather— Of lovely cotinga feathers, roseate spoonbill feathers, quetzal feathers.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
Perhaps the scarlet cotinga is the richest of the five, and is one of those birds which are found in the deepest recesses of the forest.
From Wanderings in South America by Charles Waterton
The pompadour cotinga has a purple body and white wings, their four first feathers tipped with brown.
From The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America by William Henry Giles Kingston
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