black vulture
black vulture · black vultures
Rabengeier
An American vulture species, Coragyps atratus, with black plumageAn American vulture species, Coragyps atratus, with black plumage.
» A black vulture is hovering in the sky.
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2 sensesAn American vulture species, Coragyps atratus, with black plumage.
Rabengeier
American vulture smaller than the turkey buzzard
A north African and Eurasian vulture species, Aegypius monachus.
Examples
1 sentencesA black vulture is hovering in the sky.
Translations
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By meaning 1
Coragyps atratus:
Forms
plural: black vultures| Singular | black vulture |
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regular
Synonyms
8 synonymsCoragyps atratus:American black vultureblack buzzard
Aegypius monachus:Eurasian black vulturemonk vulturecinereous vulture
Close in meaning
- of southern Eurasia and northern Africa:Aegypius monachus
- American vulture smaller than the turkey buzzard:carrion crowCoragyps atratus
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.