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caracara

See also: Caracara, caracará, and Cara Cara

English

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The mountain caracara

Etymology

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From Spanish caracara or Portuguese carcará, from Tupian, probably imitative.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈkæ.ɹəˌkɑ.ɹə/

Noun

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caracara (plural caracaras)

  1. Any of several South American and Central American birds of prey in the family Falconidae.
    • 1911, Anna Botsford Comstock, Handbook of Nature Study, 24th edition, published 1939, page 106:
      The caracara's flight is direct and rapid, not at all like that of the vulture, which sails and soars in spirals.
    • 2021, Jonathan Meiburg, A Most Remarkable Creature: The Hidden Life of the World's Smartest Birds of Prey, Vintage, →ISBN, page 8:
      A few still live on the remote coasts of Tierra del Fuego, and though warrahs and gauchos vanished from the Falklands soon after Darwin's visit, striated caracaras still cling to life on the archipelago's outer islands, where they hunt and scavenge in colonies of penguins, seals, and albatrosses.

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Spanish caracara, from Tupian.

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Noun

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caracara m (uncountable)

  1. caracara

Declension

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declension of caracara (singular only)
singular
m gender indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) caracara caracaraul
genitive/dative (unui) caracara caracaraului
vocative caracaraule

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Spanish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /kaɾaˈkaɾa/ [ka.ɾaˈka.ɾa]
  • Rhymes: -aɾa
  • Syllabification: ca‧ra‧ca‧ra

Noun

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caracara m (plural caracaras)

  1. caracara

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