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- Spanish · calque ofcorrecaminos“roadrunner”
- English todayroadrunner
From road + runner, probably a calque of Spanish correcaminos (“roadrunner”), from correr (“to run”) + caminos (“roads”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
roadrunner
road·run·nerToday it means: Either of two species of fast-running bird in the genus Geococcyx of the cuckoo family native to North and Central America, the lesser roadrunner (Geococcyx velox) and, especially, the greater roadrunner (Geococcyx californianus). Full definition →
Spanish correcaminos