black kite

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   dark Old World kite feeding chiefly on carrion

   SynonymsMilvus migrans

   Broaderkite

Questions about black kite

What does black kite mean?

black kite means "dark Old World kite feeding chiefly on carrion".

What is another word for black kite?

Close synonyms include Milvus migrans. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is black kite a common word?

black kite is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.