Word.ws English Dictionary

chimango caracara

chimango caracara noun: a species of caracara, Milvago chimango, endemic to South America.

chimango caracara: a species of caracara, Milvago chimango, endemic to South America
Image: hozdiamant, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Noun

chimango caracara (plural chimango caracaras)

  1. A species of caracara, Milvago chimango, endemic to South America.
    • Chimango caracaras, birds the size of a crow but with the armoury of an eagle, follow the buzzard eagles everywhere, the commotion caused by the larger birds providing these scavengers with ample food in the form of exposed eggs – after all, caracaras have chicks to raise, too.2000, Michael Bright, Wild South America, BBC Worldwide, published 2000, page 52

Forms of chimango caracara

pluralchimango caracaras

Questions about chimango caracara

What does chimango caracara mean?
Chimango caracara means a species of caracara, Milvago chimango, endemic to South America.
What part of speech is chimango caracara?
Chimango caracara is a noun.
What is the plural of chimango caracara?
The plural of chimango caracara is chimango caracaras.

Words near chimango caracara in the dictionary

  1. Chimals
  2. Chimalteco
  3. Chimaltenango
  4. chiman
  5. chimango
  6. chimango caracara
  7. chimango caracaras
  8. chimangoes
  9. chimangos
  10. Chimanimani
  11. chimanine

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: chimango caracara (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “chimango caracara.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/chimango_caracara. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.