caracara

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See also: Caracara, caracará, and Cara Cara

English

The mountain caracara

Etymology

From Spanish caracara or Portuguese carcará, from Tupian, probably imitative.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkæ.ɹəˌkɑ.ɹə/

Noun

caracara (plural caracaras)

  1. Any of several South American and Central American birds of prey in the family Falconidae.
    • 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.

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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish caracara, from Tupian.

Pronunciation

Noun

caracara m (uncountable)

  1. caracara

Declension

singular only indefinite definite
nominative-accusative caracara caracaraul
genitive-dative caracara caracaraului
vocative caracaraule

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Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kaɾaˈkaɾa/
  • Rhymes: -aɾa
  • Syllabification: ca‧ra‧ca‧ra

Noun

caracara m (plural caracaras)

  1. caracara

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