Noun: hoatzin how'at-sin
- Crested ill-smelling South American bird whose young have claws on the first and second digits of the wings
"The hoatzin's unique wing claws in its young fascinated evolutionary biologists";
- hoactzin, stinkbird, Opisthocomus hoazin
Derived forms: hoatzins
Type of: gallinacean, gallinaceous bird
Part of: genus Opisthocomus, Opisthocomus
Encyclopedia: Hoatzin