| NOUN | animal | cathartid, New World vulture | large birds of prey superficially similar to Old World vultures |
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| Meaning | large birds of prey superficially similar to Old World vultures. | |
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| 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 | |
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