GENUS PENELOPE

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A genus of guans (turkey-like arboreal birds valued as game and food birds)

Synonyms:

genus Penelope; Penelope

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("genus Penelope" is a kind of...):

bird genus (a genus of birds)

Holonyms ("genus Penelope" is a member of...):

Cracidae; family Cracidae (curassows; guans; chachalacas)

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