quetzal in English

noun
1
a bird of the trogon family, with iridescent green plumage and typically red underparts, found in the forests of tropical America.
Mexico is home to toucans, vultures, hummingbirds, woodpeckers, parrots, macaws, and quetzals .
2
the basic monetary unit of Guatemala, equal to 100 centavos.
I am standing in line to exchange my dollars for quetzals ; so is Angela.

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1. By Artivist Entertainment Blog Celebrating GRAMMY® winning Quetzal – 25 years strong GRAMMY® Winning East L.A

2. Beached Narwhal is a part of the main quest Shipwrecked in Tucma! and is received after defeating the Quetzal Dojo Master Yareni

3. Such admirers continue a long history of adoration for the quetzal. The bird was sacred to the ancient Maya and Aztec peoples, and royalty and priests wore its feathers during ceremonies.

4. Brazilian Portuguese uses the trigraph ⟨tch⟩ /tʃ/ for loanwords; e.g., tchau, 'ciao', tcheco 'Czech', República Tcheca 'Czech Republic', tchê 'che' (this latter is regional), etc. European Portuguese normally replace the trigraph ⟨tch⟩ with ⟨ch⟩ /ʃ/: chau, checo, República Checa, etc. Both Spanish and Portuguese use ⟨zz⟩ /ts/ (never as /dz/ – this sequence appears only in loanwords from Japanese, e.g., adzuki) for some Italian loanwords, but in Portuguese may sometimes not be pronounced as affricate, but having an epenthetic /i/ or /ɨ/; e.g., Sp. and Port. pizza 'pizza', Sp. and Port. paparazzo 'paparazzo', etc. Spanish also utilizes ⟨tz⟩ /ts/ for Basque, Catalan and Nahuatl loanwords, and ⟨tl⟩ /tɬ/ (or /tl/) for Nahuatl loanwords; e.g., Ertzaintza, quetzal, xoloitzcuintle, Tlaxcala, etc. Portuguese utilizes ⟨ts⟩ for German, originarily ⟨z⟩, and Japanese loanwords.