Cathartes

Cathartes
noun
type genus of the Cathartidae: turkey vultures
• Syn: ↑genus Cathartes
• Hypernyms: ↑bird genus
• Member Holonyms: ↑Cathartidae, ↑family Cathartidae
• Member Meronyms: ↑buzzard, ↑turkey buzzard, ↑turkey vulture, ↑Cathartes aura

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\\-d.(ˌ)ēz\ noun
Usage: capitalized
Etymology: New Latin, from Greek kathartēs cleanser, from kathairein to clean
: the type genus of Cathartidae comprising the New World turkey vultures and related extinct birds

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