Meaning of pharaoh's chicken | Babel Free

Definitions

Synonym of Egyptian vulture.

Examples

“As for the eagle of Scripture, it is believed to be not merely "as often as not," but invariably, the vulture ; not Pharaoh's chicken, however, but the griffon vulture.”

“This strange bird, known in literature as the "Pharaoh's chicken," is a tool-user. Unlikely as it may seem, this places the lowly Pharaoh's chicken with man and higher primates as users of eating utensils.”

“Leave⟳ them for Pharoah's chickens, sailing up on their wide black-tipped wings on the thermals, rising in lazy circles before dropping to ground, graceful as circus acrobats, to hunch and tear⟳.”

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