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