köken: Variant of गृध्र (gŕdhra) “vulture” from similar bald head and long neck, annotated in a painting between 1624-5 by Ustad Mansur. Learned borrowing from Sanskrit गृध्र (gṛ́dhra); doublet of गिद्ध (giddh), a tadbhava.
dodo (extinct bird of the family Columbidae) · dodo, †Raphus cucullatus (type species of the family) · solitaire (two extinct birds of the family Columbidae, more specifically Réunion soilitaire, †Raphus solitarius and Rodriques solitaire, †Pezophaps solitaria)