Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia - n. The native name of a
grallatorial bird of South America, the seriema. - n.
[capitalized] [NL.] A genus of birds (Brisson, 1760), the type
being the seriema, the Palamedea cristata (Linnæus),
Microdactylus marcgravii (Geoffroy St. Hilaire), Dicholophus
cristatus (Illiger), now usually called Cariama cristata: a bird
of uncertain affinities, sometimes classed with cranes,
sometimes with hawks, and again left by itself. GNU Webster's
1913 - n. (Zoöl.) A large, long-legged cranelike South American
wading bird (Cariama cristata, formerly Dicholophus cristatus)
which preys upon snakes, etc.; it is also called the seriema,
but that latter name is also applied to another South American
bird. See seriema. - n. the type genus of the Cariamidae,
consisting only of the Cariama cristata, also called the - n.
the type genus of the Cariamidae comprising only the crested
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