polyborus

[Gr. polyboros =much devour ing.) Ornith.: Caracara; the typical genus of the Polyborine (q. v.), with two species ranging over South America, and to California and Florida. The beak is compre ed above, lower mandible entire and obtuse; cere large and covered with hairs; cheeks and throat naked; crop woolly. pol-ý-car-pě-æ, s. pl. [Mod. Lat. polycarp (on); Lat. fem. pl. adj. suff. -eœ.] Bot .: A tribe of Caryophyllaceae.