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pauraque

[ pou-rah-key; Spanish pou-rah-ke ]
/ paʊˈrɑ keɪ; Spanish paʊˈrɑ kɛ /

noun, plural pau·ra·ques [pou-rah-keyz; Spanish pou-rah-kes] /paʊˈrɑ keɪz; Spanish paʊˈrɑ kɛs/.

a large, tropical American goatsucker, Nyctidromus albicollis.

Nearby words

  1. pauper,
  2. pauperism,
  3. pauperize,
  4. paupiette,
  5. paur,
  6. pauropod,
  7. pausanias,
  8. pause,
  9. pautrier's microabscess,
  10. pav

Origin of pauraque

First recorded in 1905–10; presumably Hispanicized spelling of a word < a language of tropical America
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