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 Pha·raoh n.
 1. A title by which the sovereigns of ancient Egypt were designated.
 2. See Faro.
 Pharaoh's chicken Zool., the gier-eagle, or Egyptian vulture; -- so called because often sculpured on Egyptian monuments.  It is nearly white in color.
 Pharaoh's rat Zool., the common ichneumon.
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 Pharaoh's chicken
      n : small mostly white vulture of Africa and southern Eurasia
          [syn: Egyptian vulture, Neophron percnopterus]