Resembling or relating to cotingas or the cotinga family; having characteristics similar to birds in the Cotingidae family.
From cotinga plus the suffix -oid, meaning 'resembling or of the nature of,' a common pattern in scientific description.
The -oid suffix is one of science's great time-savers—anthropoid means human-like, asteroid means star-like, and cotingoid means cotinga-like, letting scientists describe similarities across species instantly.
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