Highly esteemed as game and food

• Large crested arboreal game bird of warm parts of the Americas having long legs and tails
• Dog in the role of pig or bird
• Bird dog? A small pig!

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. large crested arboreal game bird of warm parts of the Americas having long legs and tails; highly esteemed as game and food

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Curassows are one of the three major groups of cracid birds. Three of the four genera are restricted to tropical South America ; a single species of Crax ranges north to Mexico . They form a distinct clade which is usually classified as the subfamily Cracinae ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. Any of several species of bird in the genera ''Nothocrax'', ''Mitu'', ''Pauxi'', and ''Crax'' of the Cracidae family, limited to the Americas.

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Curassow \Cu*ras"sow\ (k?-r?s"s?), n. [Native name in Brazil.] (Zool.) A large gallinaceous bird of the American genera Crax , Ourax , etc., of the family Cracid[ae] . Note: The crested curassow ( Crax alector ) is black, and about the size of a small hen-turkey, ...