| 单词 | king vulture |
| 释义 | > as lemmasking vulture king vulture n. a large vulture of lowland forests of Central and South America, Sarcoramphus papa, whose head and neck are patterned with several striking colours. ΚΠ 1792 Buffon's Nat. Hist. Abridged (London ed.) II. 23 Of those birds which may be accounted foreign, that which is called the king vulture..greatly demands pre-eminence. 1885 Standard Nat. Hist. IV. 268 The bird of this group whose appearance is most striking is the king-vulture. 2014 Gettysburg (Pa.) Times 20 Oct. b6 The king vulture has the most brightly colored head of all vulture species. king vulture king vulture n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Falconiformes (falcons, etc.) > family Cathartidae (New World vultures) > [noun] > sarcorhamphus papa (king vulture) king of the vultures1743 king vulture1781 1781 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds I. i. 7 King V[ulture].. is about the size of an hen Turkey. 1855 W. S. Dallas in Orr's Circle Sci.: Org. Nature III. 374 Another species of the genus Sarcorhamphus..is the King Vulture (S. papa), which is not uncommon in Brazil and Guiana. < as lemmas |
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