vultures : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

	English	German
	gyps Old World vultures (zoological genus)	Gyps-Altweltgeier {pl} (Gyps) (zoologische Gattung) [ornith.]
	white-rumped vulture	Bengalgeier {m} (Gyps bengalensis)
	slender-billed vulture	Dünnschnabelgeier {m}; Schmalschnabelgeier {m} (Gyps tenuirostris)
	Eurasian griffon vulture; griffon vulture	Gänsegeier {m} (Gyps fulvus)
	Indian vulture	Indischer Geier {m}; Indiengeier {m} (Gyps indicus)
	Cape vulture; Cape griffon; Kolbe's vulture	Kapgeier {m}; Fahlgeier {m} (Gyps coprotheres)
	Himalayan griffon vulture; Himalayan vulture	Schneegeier {m}; Himalayageier {m} (Gyps himalayensis)
	Rüppell's griffon vulture; Rüppell's vulture	Sperbergeier {m} (Gyps rueppellii)
	white-backed vulture	Weißrückengeier {m} (Gyps africanus)
	cathartes New World vultures (zoological genus)	Cathartes-Neuweltgeier {pl} (Cathartes) (zoologische Gattung) [ornith.]
	turkey vulture; turkey buzzard; carrion crow	Truthahngeier {m} (Cathartes aura)
	lesser yellow-headed vulture; savannah vulture	Kleiner Gelbkopfgeier {m} (Cathartes burrovianus)
	greater yellow-headed vulture; forest vulture	Großer Gelbkopfgeier {m} (Cathartes melambrotus)
	Old World vultures (zoological family)	Altweltgeier {pl} (Aegypiinae) (zoologische Familie) [ornith.]
	New World vultures; New World condors (zoological family)	Neuweltgeier {pl} (Cathartidae) (zoologische Familie) [ornith.]
	vulture	Aasgeier {m} [zool.]
	vultures	Aasgeier {pl}
	vulture	Geier {m} [zool.]
	vultures	Geier {pl}
	threat of bankruptcy; spectre/specter [Am.] of bankruptcy	Pleitegeier {m} [übtr.]
	The vultures are hovering above sb./sth.	Über jdm./etw. schwebt der Pleitegeier.
	The threat of bankruptcy was hovering over the firm.	Über der Firma schwebt/kreist der Pleitegeier