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OLD WORLD VULTURE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Old World vulture mean?
• OLD WORLD VULTURE (noun)
The noun OLD WORLD VULTURE has 1 sense:
1. any of several large vultures of Africa and Eurasia
Familiarity information: OLD WORLD VULTURE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of several large vultures of Africa and Eurasia
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("Old 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 "Old World vulture"):
griffon; griffon vulture; Gyps fulvus (large vulture of southern Europe and northern Africa having pale plumage with black wings)
bearded vulture; Gypaetus barbatus; lammergeier; lammergeyer (the largest Eurasian bird of prey; having black feathers hanging around the bill)
Egyptian vulture; Neophron percnopterus; Pharaoh's chicken (small mostly white vulture of Africa and southern Eurasia)
Aegypius monachus; black vulture (of southern Eurasia and northern Africa)
Holonyms ("Old World vulture" is a member of...):
Accipitridae; family Accipitridae (hawks; Old World vultures; kites; harriers; eagles)
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