Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of the smaller American vultures or Cathartidæ, as the turkey-buzzard or carrion-crow; a gallinazo; a urubu. See
aura , and cuts underCathartes and urubu.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) The urubu, or American black vulture.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
buzzard , turkey vulture
Etymologies
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Examples
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To see if a Spanish-English dictionary is as comprehensive as I want, I check to see if the word zopilote is listed.
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The invisible God has done it to us, darkened some faces and whitened others, and grouped us in groups, even as the zopilote is a bird, and the parrot of the hot lands is
The Plumed Serpent 2003
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Chiquito tocayo/a malacate petate chocolate cacao tomate coyote jaguar anana zopilote
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I know the meaning of guajolote, tecolote zopilote and Ill stop with zenzontle.
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Guajolote tecolote zopilote zenzontle/Here in Zacatecas, YES.
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I know the meaning of guajolote, tecolote zopilote and Ill stop with zenzontle.
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I know the meaning of guajolote, tecolote zopilote and Ill stop with zenzontle.
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But the angel of the zopilotes must be a zopilote, and the angel of the parrots a parrot.
The Plumed Serpent 2003
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Not that he had any home, any more than a zopilote had a home.
The Plumed Serpent 2003
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The Nahuatl name _cozcaquauhtli_ is the "royal zopilote" (_Sarcoramphus papa_ of ornithologists).
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