chanate

noun6

1. •
   a kind of bird

   • The farmer will hardly have sowed his wheat and maize fields when whole flocks of hungry chanates descend upon the land, scratch out the seeds, and eat them. — 1989
2. •
   great-tailed grackle (Quiscalus mexicanus)
3. •
   red-winged blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus)

   • “A chanate has come to pay us a visit,” doña Gertrudis said. [...] “It’s a black bird with red shoulders,” — 2003
4. •
   (slang) coffee

   • I’m sippin’ on some chanate [coffee] right now. — 2011
5. •
   (slang, offensive) black person

   • Pelaquillo's older brother was there. We called him Chanate, the name of a little black bird, because he was so dark. — 2012
6. •
   a kind of tree (Colophospermum mopane)

   • The dominant tree, often to the exclusion of many others, is Colophospermum mopane, commonly known as mopane or chanate. — 2010