gyps fulvus

1. 1.

   large vulture of southern Europe and northern Africa having pale plumage with black wings

   Synonymsgriffon vulturegriffon

   BroaderOld World vulture

   Part ofGyps

Questions about gyps fulvus

What does gyps fulvus mean?

gyps fulvus means "large vulture of southern Europe and northern Africa having pale plumage with black wings".

What is another word for gyps fulvus?

Close synonyms include griffon vulture, griffon. 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 gyps fulvus a common word?

gyps fulvus 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.