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pauraque
[ pou-rah-key; Spanish pou-rah-ke ]
noun
, plural pau·ra·ques [pou-, rah, -keyz, pou-, rah, -kes].
- a large, tropical American goatsucker, Nyctidromus albicollis.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of pauraque1
First recorded in 1905–10; presumably Hispanicized spelling of a word < a language of tropical America
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