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jacana

UK/ˈdʒækənə/US/ˌʒɑsəˈnɑ/

jacana noun: any of a group of wading birds in the family Jacanidae, usually having long toes and claws, and found throughout the world.

jacana: any of a group of wading birds in the family Jacanidae, usually having long toes and claws, and...
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Noun

jacana (plural jacanas)

  1. Any of a group of wading birds in the family Jacanidae, usually having long toes and claws, and found throughout the world.

Proper noun capitalized: Jacana

Jacana

  1. A suburb of Melbourne in the City of Hume, Victoria, Australia

Forms of jacana

pluraljacanas
alternative formjaçana

Origin of jacana

Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese jaçanã, from Old Tupi îasanã.

Words formed from jacana

Words that rhyme with jacana

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Questions about jacana

What does jacana mean?
Jacana means any of a group of wading birds in the family Jacanidae, usually having long toes and claws, and found throughout the world.
What part of speech is jacana?
Jacana can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce jacana?
Jacana is pronounced /ˌʒɑsəˈnɑ/ (US).
What is the plural of jacana?
The plural of jacana is jacanas.

Words near jacana in the dictionary

  1. jacamars
  2. jacami
  3. jacamin
  4. jacamins
  5. jacamis
  6. jacana
  7. jacanas
  8. jacanid
  9. jacanids
  10. jacaranda
  11. jacarandas

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Adapted from Wiktionary: jacana (page history and authors); Jacana (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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