n. The largest genus of old-world vultures, containing the several species known as griffins or griffin-vultures, having the nostrils oval and perpendicular, and the rectrices 14.
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n. a genus of Accipitridae
Word Usage
"Proctor with his bull-dogs (not dogs, you know, but the strongest 'gyps' in college)."