cathartes

Questions about cathartes

What does cathartes mean?

cathartes means "type genus of the Cathartidae: turkey vultures".

How many syllables are in cathartes?

cathartes has 2 syllables and divides as cathar-tes under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for cathartes?

Close synonyms include genus Cathartes. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cathartes a common word?

cathartes is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.