CATHARTID

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cathartid mean? 

• CATHARTID (noun)
  The noun CATHARTID has 1 sense:

1. large birds of prey superficially similar to Old World vultures

  Familiarity information: CATHARTID used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CATHARTID (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Large birds of prey superficially similar to Old World vultures

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

cathartid; New World vulture

Hypernyms ("cathartid" is a kind of...):

vulture (any of various large diurnal birds of prey having naked heads and weak claws and feeding chiefly on carrion)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cathartid"):

buzzard; Cathartes aura; turkey buzzard; turkey vulture (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)

black vulture; carrion crow; Coragyps atratus (American vulture smaller than the turkey buzzard)

king vulture; Sarcorhamphus papa (large black-and-white vulture of South America and Central America; have colorful wattles and wartlike protuberances on head and neck)

Holonyms ("cathartid" is a member of...):

Cathartidae; family Cathartidae (condors; turkey buzzards; king vultures)