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n. Any of various chickenlike or quaillike birds of the family Tinamidae, living in grasslands and jungles of Central and South America.

n. Any of the birds belonging to the South American family Tinamidae, the only family in the order Tinamiformes. They are related to the ratites, together with which they form the superorder Paleognathae.

n. Any one of several species of South American birds belonging to Tinamus and allied genera.

n. A South American dromæognathous carinate bird; any member of the Tinamidæ, resembling a gallinaceous or rasorial bird, and playing the part of one in the countries it inhabits, where the true grouse are entirely wanting.

n. heavy-bodied small-winged South American game bird resembling a gallinaceous bird but related to the ratite birds

"But the flightless giants are also genetically similar to a little-known neotropical bird called a tinamou—a grouse-like creature whose short, rounded wings enable somewhat clumsy but swift, flapping flight."

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