milvus migrans

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   dark Old World kite feeding chiefly on carrion

   Synonymsblack kite

   Broaderkite

Questions about milvus migrans

What does milvus migrans mean?

milvus migrans means "dark Old World kite feeding chiefly on carrion".

What is another word for milvus migrans?

Close synonyms include black kite. 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 milvus migrans a common word?

milvus migrans 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.