- Cathartidae
- nouncondors; turkey buzzards; king vultures• Syn: ↑family Cathartidae• Hypernyms: ↑bird family• Member Holonyms: ↑Falconiformes, ↑order Falconiformes• Member Meronyms:↑New World vulture, ↑cathartid, ↑Cathartes, ↑genus Cathartes, ↑Vultur, ↑genus Vultur, ↑Gymnogyps, ↑genus Gymnogyps, ↑Coragyps, ↑genus Coragyps, ↑Sarcorhamphus, ↑genus Sarcorhamphus
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\\kəˈthärd.əˌdē\ noun pluralUsage: capitalized: a family of American carnivorous birds constituting with a few extinct related forms the suborder Cathartae of Falconiformes and comprising the New World vultures (as the condor, turkey buzzard, or king vulture), all differing from the Old World vultures in many points of structure (as in having pervious nostrils, no ceca, and no syringeal muscles) but resembling them in general appearance and habits and like them feeding chiefly on carrion
Useful english dictionary. 2012.