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Alectorides
Alectorides Al`ec*tor"i*des, n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. ? a cock.] (Zo["o]l.) A group of birds including the common fowl and the pheasants.
Alectoromachy
Alectoromachy A*lec`to*rom"a*chy, n. [Gr. ? cock + ? fight.] Cockfighting.
Alectoromancy
Alectoromancy A*lec"to*ro*man`cy, n. See Alectryomancy.
Crax alector
Curassow Cu*ras"sow (k?-r?s"s?), n. [Native name in Brazil.] (Zool.) A large gallinaceous bird of the American genera Crax, Ourax, etc., of the family Cracid[ae]. Note: The crested curassow (Crax alector) is black, and about the size of a small hen-turkey, with an erectile crest of curled feathers. It ranges from Mexico to Brazil. The galeated curassow or cushew bird (Ourax Pauxi) is similar in size, and has a large, hollow, blue, pear-shaped protuberance on the head.
Dialector
Dialector Di`a*lec"tor, n. One skilled in dialectics.
Textor alector
Oxbird Ox"bird`, n. (Zo["o]l.) (a) The dunlin. (b) The sanderling. (c) An African weaver bird (Textor alector).

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- Alector (/əˈlɛktər/; Ancient Gr****: Ἀλέκτωρ) refers to more than one person in classical mythology and history: Alector, son of Magnes and Meliboea, eponyms...
- 2011, it consists of: Legacies (2002) Darknesses (2003) Scepters (2004) Alector's Choice (2005) Cadmian's Choice (2006) Soarer's Choice (2006) The Lord-Protector's...
- Elusa alector is a species of moth of the family Noctuidae. It was described by Alfred Ernest Wileman and Reginald James West in 1928, and is known from...
- The black cur****ow (Crax alector), also known as the smooth-billed cur****ow and the crested cur****ow, is a species of bird in the family Cracidae, the...
- Anaxarete was still unmoved, Aphrodite changed her to stone. Iphis, son of Alector, was one of the kings in Argos. Polynices came to him for advice on how...
- attempts to summon it prematurely, resulting in the death of his daughter Alector. He vows revenge and turns himself into a cyborg. After Nagumo destroys...
- but of his grandfather, Proetus. Anaxagoras was succeeded by his son Alector. His house lasted longer than those of Bias and Melampus, and eventually...
- and Leucippe Iphis ✓ ✓ 2 Mycenae son of Sthenelus Iphis ✓ 1 Argos son of Alector Iphitos ✓ ✓ ✓ 3 Oechalia son of Eurytus and Antiope Iphitos ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓...
- cur****ow, Crax globulosa Red-billed cur****ow Crax blumenbachii Bare-faced cur****ow, Crax fasciolata Black cur****ow, Crax alector Belem cur****ow, Crax pinima...
- Gr**** mythology, Arteϊs (Ancient Gr****: Άρτηίς, -ίδος) was the mother by Alector of Prothoenor. The latter was one of the Boeotian leaders in the Trojan...