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单词 gallinazo
释义

gallinazon.

/ˌɡalɪˈnɑːzəʊ/
Forms: Also 1700s galinasso, 1800s gallinaso.
Etymology: corruptly < Spanish gallinaza a vulture, < gallina hen + augmentative suffix -aza.
An American vulture ( Cathartes aura or Catharista atrata).
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John Crowa1818
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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).
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