ALL meanings of jacana
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J j - noun jacana any of several tropical, ploverlike, aquatic birds of the family Jacanidae, most of them having extremely long toes and claws for walking on floating water plants. 1
- noun jacana A small tropical wading bird with greatly elongated toes and claws that enable it to walk on floating vegetation. 1
- noun jacana A group of wading birds in the family Jacanidae, usually having long toes and claws and found throughout the world. 0
- noun jacana long-legged long-toed bird 0
- noun jacana any bird of the family Jacanidae, of tropical and subtropical marshy regions, having long legs and very long toes that enable walking on floating plants: order Charadriiformes 0
- noun jacana any of a family (Jacanidae) of tropical and subtropical shorebirds with long toes that enable them to walk on the floating leaves of water plants; esp., a species (Jacana spinosa) native to Mexico 0