noun
large birds of prey superficially similar to Old World vultures
• Syn: ↑New World vulture
• Hypernyms: ↑vulture
• Hyponyms:
↑buzzard, ↑turkey buzzard, ↑turkey vulture, ↑Cathartes aura, ↑condor, ↑black vulture, ↑carrion crow, ↑Coragyps atratus, ↑king vulture, ↑Sarcorhamphus papa
• Member Holonyms: ↑Cathartidae, ↑family Cathartidae
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\\kəˈthärd.ə̇d\ noun (-s)Etymology: New Latin Cathartidae
Useful english dictionary. 2012.