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Webster 1913 Edition

Houtou

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Hou′tou

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Noun.

[From its note.]

(Zool.)

A beautiful South American motmot.

Waterton.

Definition 2024

houtou

houtou

English

Noun

houtou ‎(plural houtous)

A South American motmot.
- 1839, Charles Waterton, Wanderings in South America
  The houtou shuns the society of man: the plantations and cultivated parts are too much disturbed to engage it to settle there […]