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carrion crow

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carrion crow
n.
A common European crow (Corvus corone) having glossy black plumage.
carrion crow
Noun
a scavenging European crow with a completely black plumage and bill
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Noun1.carrion crowcarrion crow - American vulture smaller than the turkey buzzard
black vulture, Coragyps atratus
cathartid, New World vulture - large birds of prey superficially similar to Old World vultures
Coragyps, genus Coragyps - a genus of Cathartidae


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By industry and care, you might thus come to some prefarment; for by this time, I should think, your eyes would plainly tell you that a carrion crow is a better bird than a mocking-thresher.
The Last of The Mohicans by Cooper, James Fenimore View in context
He is a carrion crow, and though you see not well what he hovers for, there is death somewhere.
Essays, First Series by Emerson, Ralph Waldo View in context
On the following Tuesday I was out with my dog and gun, in pursuit of such game as I could find within the territory of Linden-Car; but finding none at all, I turned my arms against the hawks and carrion crows, whose depredations, as I suspected, had deprived me of better prey.
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Bronte, Anne View in context
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