Caracaraとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Discovered at the Hacienda Caracara in Valencia, Venezuela, in 1976.

名詞

Cara Cara (plural Cara Caras)

1. A kind of red-fleshed early-to-mid-season navel orange.

発音

• IPA: /ˈkæ.ɹəˌkɑ.ɹə/

名詞

caracara (plural caracaras)

1. Any of several South American and Central American birds of prey in the subfamily Caracarinae.
   • 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.

派生語

• Audubon's caracara
• crested caracara
• red-throated caracara, Ibycter americanus
• carunculated caracara, Phalcoboenus carunculatus
• mountain caracara, Phalcoboenus megalopterus
• white-throated caracara, Phalcoboenus albogularis
• striated caracara, Phalcoboenus australis
• northern crested caracara, Caracara cheriway
• southern crested caracara, Caracara plancus
• yellow-headed caracara, Milvago chimachima
• Chimango caracara, Milvago chimango
• chimango caracara
• southern caracara

Further reading

• Caracara (subfamily) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia