Definition of "alector" []

• Klein's name (1756) for a genus of birds of which the common hen is the type: a synonym of Gallus (Linnæus). (noun)
• Merrem's name (1786) for birds of the family Cracidæ, or curassows: a synonym of Crax (Linnæus). (noun)
• [lowercase] The Linnean specific name for a species of curassow, Crax alector. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Such telling will invariably be linked more strongly to the alector's decisions if the alector has been the one to announce either gain or loss, and the resentment of those who suffer will be far greater."
• "The CSNR is known to contain more than 400 of Suriname's known bird species, including Scarlet, Red-and-Green and Blue-and-Gold Macaws, (Ara macao, Ara chloroptera, Ara ararauna); Great Tinamou (Tinamus major), Black Curassow (Crax alector) the Guianan Cock-of-the-Rock (Rupicola rupicola) and the Harpy Eagle."
• "Beyond both rose the green eternastone tower, and the aqueduct of the ancients that ran westward to the Upper Spine Mountains, paralleling the main eternastone high road, although the road had been built by alector engineers to follow the aqueduct."