Jacana Definition

zhäsə-nä
noun
Any of a family (Jacanidae) of tropical and subtropical shorebirds with long toes that enable them to walk on the floating leaves of water plants; esp., a species (Jacana spinosa) native to Mexico.
Webster's New World
pronoun

A taxonomic genus within the family Jacanidae.

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Other Word Forms of Jacana

Noun

Singular:
jacana
Plural:
jacanas

Origin of Jacana

  • Portuguese jaçanã from Tupí jaçanam, jaçanã one that cries out

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Brazilian Portuguese jaçanã, from Tupian jasaná.

    From Wiktionary

Jacana Sentence Examples

  • Jacana, black crake and various kingfishers are regularly seen and it is also a good spot for violet touraco.

  • Closely related to this bird is another first described by Linnaeus as a species of Parra (see Jacana), to which group it certainly does not belong, but separated therefrom by Illiger to form the genus Chauna, and now known as C. chavaria, very generally in English as the " Crested Screamer," a name which was first bestowed on the Seriema.

  • Latham's name for this species is " Faithful Jacana "- he supposing it to belong to the genus in which Linnaeus placed it.

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