gallinacean - heavy-bodied largely ground-feeding domestic or game birdsbird - warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings comb, coxcomb, cockscomb - the fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds guan - any of several large turkey-like game birds of the family Cracidae; native to jungles of tropical America; resembling the curassows and valued as food curassow - large crested arboreal game bird of warm parts of the Americas having long legs and tails; highly esteemed as game and food chachalaca - slender arboreal guan resembling a wild turkey; native to Central America and Mexico; highly regarded as game birds columbiform bird - a cosmopolitan order of land birds having small heads and short legs with four unwebbed toes game bird - any bird (as grouse or pheasant) that is hunted for sport |