"coscoroba" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "Not certain. From a local South American (perhaps specifically Chilean) name, which probably entered English via Spanish; perhaps related to Tupi casaroba, saroba.",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "coscoroba swan"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1950, Parks & Recreation:",
          "text": "Their bills and legs are pink. The two babies are very light grey with dark markings. The coscorobas built a nest in February with twigs and brush provided by their keepers. The female laid two eggs, but one rolled into the pool and the other [...]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1969, Sidney Dillon Ripley, A paddling of ducks:",
          "text": "The coscorobas have a wonderfully detached, rather languid manner of rising from the water and flying, well befitting their aristocratic air. Graceful, too, in their smaller proportion were the brown or Chilean pintails, [...]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1972, Animal Kingdom:",
          "text": "The history of the coscorobas at the Bronx Zoo is of particular interest because they were among the earliest acquisitions to the society's bird collection; four coscorobas from Brazil arrived on October 2, 1899, just a little over one month before [...]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1977, National Zoological Park (U.S.), Annual Report - National Zoological Park",
          "text": "The blacks produced four cygnets, the black-necks three, and the coscorobas six. Only one black swan cygnet died. Two coscoroba cygnets, unable to compete with their siblings, were taken at 28 days and hand-reared."
        }
      ],
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        "A bird of the genus Coscoroba, the only swan not belonging to Cygnus."
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          "Cygnus",
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      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "coscoroba swan"
        }
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          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "coscoroba swan",
          "word": "coscorobazwaan"
        }
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  "word": "coscoroba"
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  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "coscoroba swan"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Not certain. From a local South American (perhaps specifically Chilean) name, which probably entered English via Spanish; perhaps related to Tupi casaroba, saroba.",
  "forms": [
    {
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      "tags": [
        "plural"
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    }
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        {
          "ref": "1950, Parks & Recreation:",
          "text": "Their bills and legs are pink. The two babies are very light grey with dark markings. The coscorobas built a nest in February with twigs and brush provided by their keepers. The female laid two eggs, but one rolled into the pool and the other [...]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1969, Sidney Dillon Ripley, A paddling of ducks:",
          "text": "The coscorobas have a wonderfully detached, rather languid manner of rising from the water and flying, well befitting their aristocratic air. Graceful, too, in their smaller proportion were the brown or Chilean pintails, [...]",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1972, Animal Kingdom:",
          "text": "The history of the coscorobas at the Bronx Zoo is of particular interest because they were among the earliest acquisitions to the society's bird collection; four coscorobas from Brazil arrived on October 2, 1899, just a little over one month before [...]",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1977, National Zoological Park (U.S.), Annual Report - National Zoological Park",
          "text": "The blacks produced four cygnets, the black-necks three, and the coscorobas six. Only one black swan cygnet died. Two coscoroba cygnets, unable to compete with their siblings, were taken at 28 days and hand-reared."
        }
      ],
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      ],
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "coscoroba swan"
    }
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      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "coscoroba swan",
      "word": "coscorobazwaan"
    }
  ],
  "word": "coscoroba"
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