Definition of new world vulture New world vulture
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What does new world vulture mean?
WordNet
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| new world vulture - large birds of prey superficially similar to Old World vultures | ||
| cathartid | ||
| 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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Wiktionary 
- new world vulture (Noun)
Any of the large scavenging birds in the family Cathartidae.
