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BLACK KITE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does black kite mean? 

BLACK KITE (noun)
  The noun BLACK KITE has 1 sense:

1. dark Old World kite feeding chiefly on carrionplay

  Familiarity information: BLACK KITE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


BLACK KITE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Dark Old World kite feeding chiefly on carrion

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

black kite; Milvus migrans

Hypernyms ("black kite" is a kind of...):

kite (any of several small graceful hawks of the family Accipitridae having long pointed wings and feeding on insects and small animals)


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