cathartid (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)

English > 1 sense of the word *cathartid*:
NOUN	animal	cathartid, New World vulture	large birds of prey superficially similar to Old World vultures

English > *cathartid*: 1 sense > noun 1, animal
Meaning	large birds of prey superficially similar to Old World vultures.
Synonym	New World vulture
Member of	Cathartidae, family Cathartidae	condors
Narrower	black vulture, carrion crow, Coragyps atratus	American vulture smaller than the turkey buzzard
	buzzard, turkey buzzard, turkey vulture, Cathartes aura	A New World vulture that is common in South America and Central America and the southern United States
	condor	The largest flying birds in the western hemisphere
	king vulture, Sarcorhamphus papa	large black-and-white vulture of South America and Central America
Broader	vulture	Any of various large diurnal birds of prey having naked heads and weak claws / claws and feeding chiefly on carrion
Spanish	catártido
Catalan	catàrtid

HyperDic: cathartid