turkey buzzard

1. 1.

   a New World vulture that is common in South America and Central America and the southern United States

   Synonymsbuzzardturkey vultureCathartes aura

   BroaderNew World vulture

   Part ofCathartes

Questions about turkey buzzard

What does turkey buzzard mean?

turkey buzzard means "a New World vulture that is common in South America and Central America and the southern United States".

What is another word for turkey buzzard?

Close synonyms include buzzard, turkey vulture, Cathartes aura. 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 turkey buzzard a common word?

turkey buzzard 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.