caracara
English
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Etymology
[edit]From Spanish caracara or Portuguese carcará, from Tupian, probably imitative.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈkæ.ɹəˌkɑ.ɹə/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
[edit]caracara (plural caracaras)
- Any of several South American and Central American birds of prey in the subfamily Caracarinae.
- 1911, Anna Botsford Comstock, Handbook of Nature Study, 24th edition, published 1939, page 106:
- The caracara's flight is direct and rapid, not at all like that of the vulture, which sails and soars in spirals.
- 2021, Jonathan Meiburg, A Most Remarkable Creature: The Hidden Life of the World's Smartest Birds of Prey, Vintage, →ISBN, page 8:
- A few still live on the remote coasts of Tierra del Fuego, and though warrahs and gauchos vanished from the Falklands soon after Darwin's visit, striated caracaras still cling to life on the archipelago's outer islands, where they hunt and scavenge in colonies of penguins, seals, and albatrosses.
Derived terms
[edit]- Audubon's caracara
- carunculated caracara, Phalcoboenus carunculatus
- chimango caracara
- Chimango caracara, Milvago chimango
- crested caracara
- mountain caracara, Phalcoboenus megalopterus
- northern crested caracara, Caracara cheriway
- red-throated caracara, Ibycter americanus
- southern caracara
- southern crested caracara, Caracara plancus
- striated caracara, Phalcoboenus australis
- white-throated caracara, Phalcoboenus albogularis
- yellow-headed caracara, Milvago chimachima
Translations
[edit]bird of prey
Further reading
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Caracara (subfamily) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Spanish caracara, from Tupian.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]caracara m (uncountable)
Declension
[edit]| singular only | indefinite | definite |
|---|---|---|
| nominative-accusative | caracara | caracaraul |
| genitive-dative | caracara | caracaraului |
| vocative | caracaraule | |
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- “caracara”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025
Spanish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]caracara m (plural caracaras)
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “caracara”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024
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