单词 | gallinazo |
释义 | gallinazon. An American vulture ( Cathartes aura or Catharista atrata). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Falconiformes (falcons, etc.) > family Cathartidae (New World vultures) > [noun] > cathartes aura (turkey vulture) turkey-buzzard1672 gallinazo1772 zopilote1787 John Crowa1818 turkey vulture1823 1772 J. Adams tr. A. de Ulloa Voy. S. Amer. (ed. 3) I. 58 These are equally fierce and carnivorous with the former; and called the kings of the gallinazos. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth V. 113 Vultures, or galinassos, as the Spaniards call them. 1833 M. Scott Tom Cringle's Log I. iii. 119 I looked up and saw a gallinaso, the large carrion-crow of the tropics, sailing..seaward. 1839 C. Darwin in R. Fitzroy & C. Darwin Narr. Surv. Voy. H.M.S. Adventure & Beagle III. x. 221 From these facts, the condor must..like the gallinazo, be considered a gregarious bird. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1772 |
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