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Cathartes

noun

type genus of the Cathartidae: turkey vultures

• Syn: ↑genus Cathartes

• Hypernyms: ↑bird genus

• Member Holonyms: ↑Cathartidae, ↑family Cathartidae

• Member Meronyms: ↑buzzard, ↑turkey buzzard, ↑turkey vulture, ↑Cathartes aura

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\\-d.(ˌ)ēz\ noun

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Greek kathartēs cleanser, from kathairein to clean

: the type genus of Cathartidae comprising the New World turkey vultures and related extinct birds

Useful english dictionary. 2012.