BLACK VULTURE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does black vulture mean? 

• BLACK VULTURE (noun)
  The noun BLACK VULTURE has 2 senses:

1. American vulture smaller than the turkey buzzard

2. of southern Eurasia and northern Africa

  Familiarity information: BLACK VULTURE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLACK VULTURE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

American vulture smaller than the turkey buzzard

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

black vulture; carrion crow; Coragyps atratus

Hypernyms ("black vulture" is a kind of...):

cathartid; New World vulture (large birds of prey superficially similar to Old World vultures)

Holonyms ("black vulture" is a member of...):

Coragyps; genus Coragyps (a genus of Cathartidae)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Of southern Eurasia and northern Africa

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Aegypius monachus; black vulture

Hypernyms ("black vulture" is a kind of...):

Old World vulture (any of several large vultures of Africa and Eurasia)

Holonyms ("black vulture" is a member of...):

Aegypius; genus Aegypius (a genus of Accipitridae)