Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A book-name of the Gypohierax angolensis of western Africa.

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  • Riding home one afternoon, he spied a skunk "shuffling along in the erratic manner usual to that odoriferous quadruped;" following it at a very short distance was an eagle-vulture, evidently bent on mischief.

    The Naturalist in La Plata 1881

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