Pauraque Definition
pō-räkā
noun
An insectivorous nocturnal bird (Nyctidromus albicollis) found from southern Texas through tropical Central and South America and having brown, black, and gray plumage with a white bib.
American Heritage
Origin of Pauraque
American Spanish perhaps from pauraque, huaraque the name of a Native American people that once inhabited the Rio Grande region in Texas and northeast Mexico or perhaps akin to dialectal Mexican Spanish (Rio Grande region) parruaca pauraque, ultimately imitative of the bird's call
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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