Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The native name of some hawk or other bird of prey of South America.

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  • Prince Wied saw the Brazilian eagle urubitinga surrounded by numberless flocks of toucans and cassiques (a bird nearly akin to our rook), which mocked it.

    Mutual Aid; a factor of evolution Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin 1881

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