old_world_vulture (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)

English > 1 sense of the expression *Old World vulture*:
NOUN	animal	Old World vulture	any of several large vultures of Africa and Eurasia

English > *Old World vulture*: 1 sense > noun 1, animal
Meaning	Any of several large vultures of Africa and Eurasia.
Member of	Accipitridae, family Accipitridae	hawks
Narrower	Egyptian vulture, Pharaoh's chicken, Neophron percnopterus	small mostly white vulture of Africa and southern Eurasia
	bearded vulture, lammergeier, lammergeyer, Gypaetus barbatus	The largest Eurasian bird of prey
	black vulture, Aegypius monachus	Of southern Eurasia and northern Africa
	griffon vulture, griffon, Gyps fulvus	large vulture of southern Europe and northern Africa having pale plumage with black wings
Broader	vulture	Any of various large diurnal birds of prey having naked heads and weak claws / claws and feeding chiefly on carrion

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