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Meaning of porphyrio



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It is the name of a genus of birds belonging to the family Rallidae. They are known as gallinettes, calamones. Water cocks, tongues, gallaretas. It is characteristic as a great colonizer of very distant islands, so they are found almost all over the world. It was a Greek male name in ancient times and means purple ( color). In Spanish it is equivalent to Porfirio.

  



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Porphyrio : Genus of gruiform birds of the rumid family that are distributed all over the world. They are large in size and purple plumage

  










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