condor
秃鹰,兀鹫,兀鹰,秃鹫
Definitions
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- : either of two large, New World vultures of the family Cathartidae, Gymnogyps californianus or Vultur gryphus, the largest flying birds in the Western Hemisphere: the California condor is almost extinct; the Andean condor is greatly reduced in number and rare in many areas.
- : a former coin of Chile equal to 10 pesos.
- : a former coin of Ecuador equal to 10 sucres.
Examples
After a few bold condors returned from roosting on nearby trees to her roof on Wednesday morning, she gave them a “morning shower” with a hose, she said.
In the 1990s, so few adult condors had ever existed in the wild that juveniles struggled to learn how they should act in their native mountain terrain, Fry said.
On Monday, however, she arrived home to find that a massive flock of the condors had descended upon — and trashed — her own property.
At Smithsonian’s National Zoo, you can see pandas, cheetah cubs and others, and the San Diego Zoo shows off koalas, condors, tigers, platypuses and more.
Since the incident, she has only posted a picture of a giant Condor mid-flight.
The foam and the fangs and the flowers,The raving and ravenous rage Of a poet as pinion'd in powersAs a condor confined in a cage!
A curious method of capturing the condor alive is practised in the province of Abancay.
Some old travellers, Ulloa among others, have affirmed that the plumage of the condor is invulnerable to a musket-ball.
I had a condor, which, when he first came into my possession, was very young.
And they talked it all over, where they'd been and everything, all about the Condor and the savages and the Moon.