| 单词 | turkey vulture |
| 释义 | > as lemmasturkey vulture turkey vulture n. = turkey-buzzard n. 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 1823 E. James Acct. Exped. Rocky Mts. I. 4 At evening we..saw..several turkey vultures. 1846 in Congress Documents XLI. 405 Amongst the birds [we have] the turkey vulture. 1908 Daily Chron. 18 Aug. 5/4 They are about the size of large barn-door fowls, with red heads (hence their name ‘turkey vultures’). turkey vulture turkey vulture n. ΚΠ 1837 C. F. Partington Brit. Cycl. Nat. Hist. III. 825/2 The Turkey Vulture (C. aura) is another American species of smaller size. 1855 W. S. Dallas in Orr's Circle Sci.: Org. Nature III. 375 The common American Vulture is the Turkey Vulture (Cathartes aura), or Turkey Buzzard. < as lemmas |
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