Meanings of tinamou in English

The small tinamou has nothing that can be called a tail.

Ah, the tinamou, the bird with hidden wings and ferocious legs!

There is something remarkable in the great tinamou which I suspect has hitherto escaped notice.

At the close of day the great tinamou gives a loud, monotonous, plaintive whistle, and then immediately springs into the tree.

About eight years ago a gentleman in Essex introduced the rufous tinamou-a handsome game bird, nearly as large as a fowl-intohis estate.

We also went tinamou, or partridge, catching, and sometimes we had sham fights with lances, or long canes with which we supplied the others.

That so unpromising a subject as this large archaic tinamou should be able to maintain its existence in this country, even for a very few

"Do you remember the tinamou and an American somewhat younger than he is now who made things a little simpler for you?"