carrancha

English edit

Etymology edit

Native name, imitating the bird's cry.This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Noun edit

carrancha (plural carranchas)

The Brazilian kite (Polyborus brasiliensis).

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “carrancha”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)