‖ mutum
(ˈmuːtəm)
[Native name.]
= curassow.
| 1863 [see curassow]. 1933 P. Fleming Brazilian Adventure i. xvi. 137 Sometimes we got a mutum, a big black and white turkey with a speckled crest. 1964 A. L. Thomson New Dict. Birds 175/2 The Razorbilled Curassow Mitu mitu, which is called ‘mutum’ by the Brazilians, is black with a bluish sheen in both sexes, with brown on the belly, and with a high narrow frontal comb of the same red colour as the bill; it weighs about 73/4 lb. (3500 grams) and inhabits the Amazon region and northern Brazil. |