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Definition of Carancha
1. Noun. South American caracara.
Exact synonyms: Polyborus Plancus
Generic synonyms: Caracara
Group relationships: Genus Polyborus, Polyborus
Generic synonyms: Caracara
Group relationships: Genus Polyborus, Polyborus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Carancha
Literary usage of Carancha
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Paraná: With Incidents of the Paraguayan War, and South American by Thomas Joseph Hutchinson (1868)
"... solitary crane or carancha (the vulture hawk) flits across our bows. Yet these
seem but mockeries of life, to make the solitude more desolating, ..."
2. A Search for Fortune: The Autobiography of a Younger Son, a Narrative of by Hamilton Lindsay-Bucknall (1878)
"... burrowing owls, tierra-tierra, carancha, and the grey or silver fox, and
several other varieties. But my fox had managed one night to get loose, ..."
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