CARACARA

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Any of various long-legged carrion-eating hawks of South America and Central America

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("caracara" is a kind of...):

falcon (diurnal birds of prey having long pointed powerful wings adapted for swift flight)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "caracara"):

Audubon's caracara; Polyborus cheriway audubonii (widespread from southern United States to Central America; rusty black with black-and-white breast and tail)

carancha; Polyborus plancus (South American caracara)