英语词汇“turkey-buzzard”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

c. U.S. A species of vulture more fully called turkey-buzzard.

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1851 M. Reid Scalp Hunters II. viii. 119 'Twur turkey-buzzart then—that's what it wur.

1851 M. Reid Scalp Hunters II. viii. 120 And when did ye eat the buzzard, old boy?

1871 S. de Vere Americanisms (1872) 373 Similar confusion prevails here about the name of Buzzard, which is commonly misapplied, being given to a vulture instead of a hawk.

1876 J. Burroughs Winter Sunshine (1892) i. 16 But the worst thing about the buzzard is his silence.

turkey-buzzard n. an American carrion vulture, Cathartes aura, so called from its bare reddish head and neck and dark plumage; the John Crow of Jamaica; also figurative; in West Africa, the Vulturine Pie, Picathartes gymnocephalus.

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the world > animals > birds > order Falconiformes (falcons, etc.) > family Cathartidae (New World vultures) > [noun] > cathartes aura (turkey vulture)

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1672 J. Josselyn New-Englands Rarities 12 The Turkie Buzzard, a kind of Kite, but as big as a Turkie, brown of colour, and very good meat.

1839 C. Darwin in R. Fitzroy & C. Darwin Narr. Surv. Voy. H.M.S. Adventure & Beagle III. iii. 68 The turkey-buzzard (Vultur aura)...found wherever the country is moderately damp, from Cape Horn to North America.

1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 23 One of the chief features of Free Town are the jack crows... Picathartes gymnocephalus. To the white people who live in daily contact with them they are turkey-buzzards; to the natives, Yubu.

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