Also -ot. [Sp., a. Mexican azopilotl.] A vulture of the family Cathartidæ, esp. the American carrion vulture or turkey-buzzard, Cathartes aura.
1787. Cullen, trans. Clavigero’s Mexico, I. 47. The Zopilots, known in South America by the name of Gallinazzi;… There are two very different species…; the one, the Zopilote properly so called, the other called the Cozcaquauktli.
1850. Mayne Reid, Rifle Rangers, II. xxx. 278. The Eagle’s cliff was black with zopilotes.
1862. J. G. Wood, Illustr. Nat. Hist., II. 17. When in search of food, the Zopilote ascends to a vast height in the air.
