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单词 gallinazo
释义 gallinazo|ˌgælɪˈnɑːzəʊ|
Also 8 galinasso, 9 gallinaso.
[corruptly a. Sp. gallinaza a vulture, f. gallina hen + augmentative suffix -aza.]
An American vulture (Cathartes aura or Catharista atrata).
1760–72tr. Juan & Ulloa's Voy. (ed. 3) I. 58 These are equally fierce and carnivorous with the former; and called the kings of the gallinazos.1774Goldsm. Anim. Nat. V. 113 Vultures, or galinassos, as the Spaniards call them.1833M. Scott Tom Cringle iii, I looked up and saw a gallinaso, the large carrion-crow of the tropics, sailing seaward.1845Darwin Voy. Nat. ix. (1873) 183 From these facts the condor, like the gallinazo, must be considered as a gregarious bird.
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