egyptian vulture

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   small mostly white vulture of Africa and southern Eurasia

   SynonymsPharaoh's chickenNeophron percnopterus

   BroaderOld World vulture

   Part ofNeophron

Questions about egyptian vulture

What does egyptian vulture mean?

egyptian vulture means "small mostly white vulture of Africa and southern Eurasia".

What is another word for egyptian vulture?

Close synonyms include Pharaoh's chicken, Neophron percnopterus. 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 egyptian vulture a common word?

egyptian vulture 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.