tinamou

[ tin-uh-moo ]

noun

1. any of several birds of the family Tinamidae, of South and Central America, related to the ratite birds but superficially resembling the gallinaceous birds.

tinamou

/ ˈtɪnəˌmuː /

noun

1. any bird of the order Tinamiformes of Central and South America, having small wings, a heavy body, and an inconspicuous plumage

Word History and Origins

Origin of tinamou¹

First recorded in 1775–85; from French, from Galibi (a Carib language spoken in French Guiana) tinamu

Word History and Origins

Origin of tinamou¹

C18: via French from Carib (Galibi) tinamu

Example Sentences

Animals such as the tinamou, a bird the local Indigenous people consider sacred, even scarcer.

From Washington Post

Panguana’s name comes from the local word for the undulated tinamou, a species of ground bird common to the Amazon basin.

From New York Times

He had identified the avian whistleblower as a pale-browed tinamou – which is not native to Colombia.

From The Guardian

It has licences to reintroduce the tapir, the red macaw, the woolly spider monkey and two spectacular birds, the solitary tinamou and the black-fronted piping guan.

From The Guardian

Reid Rumelt, a computational ornithologist, just returned to his D.C. home from the Andes Mountains, where he recorded 3,600 hours of the endangered undulated tinamou.

From Washington Post