Definition of Carancha

1. Noun. South American caracara.

Exact synonyms: Polyborus Plancus
Generic synonyms: Caracara
Group relationships: Genus Polyborus, Polyborus

Lexicographical Neighbors of Carancha

caramelising
caramelization
caramelize
caramelized
caramelized sugar
caramelizes
caramelizing
caramellike
caramelly
caramels
caramiphen ethanedisulfonate
caramiphen hydrochloride
caramoussal
caramoussals
caramusa
carancha (current term)
caranda
caranda palm
caranday
carangid
carangid fish
carangids
carangoid
caranna
carannas
caranx
caranxes
carap
carapace
carapaced

Literary usage of Carancha

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Paraná: With Incidents of the Paraguayan War, and South American by Thomas Joseph Hutchinson (1868)
"... solitary crane or carancha (the vulture hawk) flits across our bows. Yet these seem but mockeries of life, to make the solitude more desolating, ..."

2. A Search for Fortune: The Autobiography of a Younger Son, a Narrative of by Hamilton Lindsay-Bucknall (1878)
"... burrowing owls, tierra-tierra, carancha, and the grey or silver fox, and several other varieties. But my fox had managed one night to get loose, ..."

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