cracid

1. not comparableOf or pertaining to birds of the taxonomic family Cracidae.

plural cracids

1. biologyAny bird of the family Cracidae.

   Cracraft (1973b, p. 507) asserted that Gallinuloides was closer to phasianids than cracids, but never presented evidence to substantiate his claim.

   2012, Storrs L. Olson, “Chapter 2: The Fossil Record of Birds”, in Donald Farner, editor, Avian Biology, volume 3, page 115

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   Indeed, if anything it^([the chachalaca]) is further from the Galliformes than the duck; but because of the slight uncertainties in the method Prager and Wilson argued for a three-way split between ducks, cracids, and non-cracid galliforms.

   1982 May 20, Jeremy Charfas, “Proving the pattern of life”, in New Scientist, number 1306, page 485

   Two of the five Galliform families, the cracids (guans, curassows and chachalacas) and the New World quails, are confined to the Americas, with most species in Central and especially South America.

   2013, Erik Hirschfeld, Andy Swash, Robert Still, The World's Rarest Birds, page 278