Definition of cathartides Cathartides
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What does cathartides mean?
Part of speech
🔤- cathartides, noun, plural of cathartid.
WordNet
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| cathartid - large birds of prey superficially similar to Old World vultures | ||
| New World vulture | ||
| vulture any of various large diurnal birds of prey having naked heads and weak claws and feeding chiefly on carrion | ||
| cathartidae, family cathartidae condors; turkey buzzards; king vultures | ||
| cathartes aura, turkey buzzard, turkey vulture, buzzard the common European short-winged hawk | ||
| condor the largest flying birds in the western hemisphere | ||
| carrion crow, coragyps atratus, black vulture of southern Eurasia and northern Africa | ||
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Part of speech
🔤- cathartid, noun, singular of cathartids / cathartides.
