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Definition of Lammergeyer
1. Noun. The largest Eurasian bird of prey; having black feathers hanging around the bill.
Definition of Lammergeyer
1. Noun. (alternative form of lammergeier) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Lammergeyer
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lammergeyer
Literary usage of Lammergeyer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Historical and Descriptive Account of British India, from the Most Remote by Hugh Murray, James Wilson, Robert Kaye Greville, Robert Jameson, Whitelaw Ainslie, William Rhind, William Wallace, Clarence Dalrymple (1832)
"... —lammergeyer—Pondicherry Eagle—Finch Falcon of Bengal —Hawk-owl of Ceylon—Fork-tailed
Shrike—Jocose Shrike or Bulbul —Mina-bird— Locust-eating ..."
2. The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1861)
"He died of indigestion, caused by high living. Frederic wrote his eulogy.
lammergeyer (Germ. Lämmer, lambs, and Geier, vulture), ..."
3. The Alps, Switzerland, and the North of Italy by Charles Williams (1854)
"... AND THE GOAT THE EAGLE THE lammergeyer. IN the elevated districts of the Alps,
as well us the Pyrenees, the chamois dwells in small herds, cropping the ..."
4. The Bāz-nāma-yi Nāsirī: A Persian Treatise on Falconry by Husām al-Daulah Timūr ibn Husain ʻAlī, Mīrzā, Douglas Craven Phillott (1908)
"He then continues : ] — The lammergeyer is noted for its wondrous powers of ...
It is a popular superstition that any one wilfully slaying a lammergeyer ..."
5. Martin's Natural History by F. Martin, Sarah Ann Myers (1870)
"The Lamb Vulture—lammergeyer—(vultur bar- batus), plate 14, fig. 2. The Bearded
Vulture differs from all others of the race by having the head and neck ..."
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