NEW WORLD VULTURE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does New World vulture mean? 

• NEW WORLD VULTURE (noun)
  The noun NEW WORLD VULTURE has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: NEW WORLD VULTURE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NEW WORLD VULTURE (noun)

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Meaning:

Large birds of prey superficially similar to Old World vultures

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Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

cathartid; New World vulture

Hypernyms ("New World vulture" 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 "New World vulture"):

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 ("New World vulture" is a member of...):

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