CONDOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does condor mean? 

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

1. the largest flying birds in the western hemisphere

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONDOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The largest flying birds in the western hemisphere

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

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

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

Andean condor; Vultur gryphus (large vulture of the high Andes having black plumage and white neck ruff)

California condor; Gymnogyps californianus (North American condor; chiefly dull black; almost extinct)

 Context examples 

Indeed, whatever being uttered that fearful shriek could not soon repeat it: not the widest-winged condor on the Andes could, twice in succession, send out such a yell from the cloud shrouding his eyrie.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)