Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Palamedea

Palamedea , noun, plural

[New Latin]

(Zoology) An order, or suborder, including the kamichi, and allied South American birds; -- called also screamers. In many anatomical characters they are allied to the Anseres, but they externally resemble the wading birds.

Also: Palamedeae