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Definition of Aasvogel
1. a vulture [n -S] - See also: vulture
Lexicographical Neighbors of Aasvogel
Literary usage of Aasvogel
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Jock of the Bushveld by Percy Fitzpatrick (1907)
"At last the Lion, who was very cross, turned to the old Black aasvogel, ...
The aasvogel said nothing, but let his bald head and bare neck settle down ..."
2. Kloof and Karroo: Sport, Legend and Natural History in Cape Colony, with a by Henry Anderson Bryden (1889)
"The word aasvogel, by the way, liu-rally means flesh or carrion bird. ...
The common aasvogel is much more numerous than the black ..."
3. Marie: An Episode in the Life of the Late Allan Quatermain by Henry Rider Haggard (1912)
"Scarcely was this aasvogel down, when others, summoned from the depths of sky,
... Presently that something appeared in the shape of an aasvogel which was ..."
4. Gun and Camera in Southern Africa: A Year of Wanderings in Bechuanaland, the by Henry Anderson Bryden (1893)
"... zwart aasvogel of the Boers ; the common fulvus vulture (Gyps ... aasvogel of
the colonists; and the white-headed vulture (Vultur Occipitalis): the ..."
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