Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

(Zoology) A large, long-legged cranelike South American wading bird (Cariama cristata, formerly Dicholophus cristatus) which preys upon snakes, etc.; it is also called the seriema, but that latter name is also applied to another South American bird. See Seriema.

The type genus of the Cariamidae, consisting only of the Cariama cristata, also called the seriema.