pharaoh's chicken

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   small mostly white vulture of Africa and southern Eurasia

   SynonymsEgyptian vultureNeophron percnopterus

   BroaderOld World vulture

   Part ofNeophron

Questions about pharaoh's chicken

What does pharaoh's chicken mean?

pharaoh's chicken means "small mostly white vulture of Africa and southern Eurasia".

What is another word for pharaoh's chicken?

Close synonyms include Egyptian vulture, 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 pharaoh's chicken a common word?

pharaoh's chicken 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.