Black Vulture

  

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Black Vulture

Definitions: Black Vulture

Black Vulture

Noun

1. American vulture smaller than the turkey buzzard.

2. Of southern Eurasia and northern Africa.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonym: Black Vulture

Synonym: carrion crow (n). (additional references)

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Specialty Definition: Black vulture

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

There are two unrelated black vultures.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Black vulture."

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Crosswords: Black Vulture

English words defined with "black vulture": Andean condorgriffon, griffon vulture, Gyps fulvusking vultureturkey buzzardUrubuVultur gryphusZopilote. (references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Black Vulture

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  black vulture

22
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Modern Translations: Black Vulture

Language Translations for "black vulture"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

munkegrib. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

zwarte gier, monniksgier. (various references)

   

French

  

vautour noir, vautour moine. (various references)

   

German

  

Mönchsgeier. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

μαυρόγυπας. (various references)

   

Italian

  

avvoltoio nero, avvoltoio monaco, avvoltoio (acid, beast, blotter acid, blue caps, blue drops, brown caps, California sunshine, green caps, hawk, microdots, orange wedges, paper acid, pink drops, purple haze, purple wedges, sunshine, the ghost, vulture, white lightning, window panes, yellow caps, yellow drops, zen). (various references)

   

Papago

  

nuwiopa. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ackblay ulturevay

   

Portuguese

  

abutre-preto. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

buitre negro. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

grågam. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Black Vulture

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

Aegypius monachus, Coragyps atratus, RM:tschess dal chapitsch. (various references)

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Anagrams: Black Vulture

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-c-e-k-l-l-r-t-u-u-v"

-3 letters: curveball.

-4 letters: brucella, cubature, cultural.

-5 letters: ballute, blacker, bracket, buckler, bullace, bullate, caulker, culture, culvert, curable, rubella, rulable, tackler, truckle, tubular, ululate, vaulter, vulture.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Black Vulture


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 6C 61 63 6B      56 75 6C 74 75 72 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01101100 01100001 01100011 01101011 00100000 01010110 01110101 01101100 01110100 01110101 01110010 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#108 &#97 &#99 &#107 &#32 &#86 &#117 &#108 &#116 &#117 &#114 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 006C 0061 0063 006B      0056 0075 006C 0074 0075 0072 0065

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3678676977256877886878471

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Images: Slideshow
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Translations: Ancient
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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