acauã
English
editEtymology
editFrom Portuguese acauã.
Noun
editacauã (plural acauãs)
- The laughing falcon, Herpetotheres cachinnans, native to northern South America.
- 1984, Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by Helen R. Lane, The War of the End of the World, Folio Society, published 2012, page 20:
- There were so many of them that there were not enough acauãs to finish them off, and in those topsy-turvy days it was not a rare sight to see serpents devouring that predatory bird rather than, as in days gone by, the acauã taking wing with its snake prey in its mouth.
- 2000, José de Alencar, translated by Clifford E. Landers, Iracema:
- “The Pitiguara chieftain is brave and bold: Irapuã is cunning and treacherous like the acauã.”
- 2004, Nicholas Gabriel Arons, Waiting for Rain, page 5:
- The eggs of the female acauã serve as an antidote to venomous snakebites.