griffon-vulture

A form of griffon vulture — A large Old World vulture, Gyps fulvus, native to mountainous areas from Iberia to Burma.

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Meanings

noungriffon-vulture (plural griffon-vultures)

plural griffon-vultures

  1. alternativeuncommonAlternative form of griffon vulture.

    […] the Dornier collided with a griffon-vulture and crashed near the Loliondo Mountains, […]

    1992, Jonathan S. Adams, The Myth of Wild Africa: Conservation Without Illusion, page 52
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    Mr. Wood and Mr. Tristram agree that the griffon-vulture is the bird, or one of the birds, whose name is rendered "The Eagle" in our version of the Scriptures.

    1884, John Worcester, The Animals of the Bible and Their Correspondences, page 128

    The griffon-vulture's daughters gathered round him and, as they were very pretty, he made advances to them.

    1990, Claude Lévi-Strauss, The Origin of Table Manners: Mythologiques, page 140
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