Definition of Carrion crow

1. Noun. American vulture smaller than the turkey buzzard.

Exact synonyms: Black Vulture, Coragyps Atratus
Generic synonyms: Cathartid, New World Vulture
Group relationships: Coragyps, Genus Coragyps

Definition of Carrion crow

1. Noun. The common European black crow ''Corvus corone''. ¹

2. Noun. The American black vulture ''Coragyps atratus''. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Carrion Crow

carrier screening
carrier shell
carrier state
carrier strain
carrier test
carrier wave
carrier waves
carriers
carries
carries out
carries the message to Garcia
carrieth
carriole
carrioles
carrion
carrion crow
carrion crows
carrion flower
carrion fungus
carrions
carritch
carritches
carriwitchet
carriwitchets
carrizo
carroch
carroches
carrollite
carrom
carromed

Literary usage of Carrion crow

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories: A by Robert Ford (1904)
"Of meaner antiquity, perhaps, but no less a favourite with the young, is the amusing ditty of THE carrion crow. A carrion crow sat on an oak, Fol de riddle, ..."

2. The Birds of America by John James] [Audubon (1840)
"... the iris yellowish, the feet flesh-coloured. The plumage is nearly of the same colour as in the adult. BLACK VULTURE, OR carrion crow. ..."

3. Century Readings for a Course in English Literature by James Francis Augustine Pyre, Karl Young (1910)
"SONG Old Adam, the carrion crow, (1850) The old crow of Cairo; He sat in the shower, and let it flow Under his tail and over his crest ; And through every ..."

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