Associations to the word «Cathartid»

Wiktionary

CATHARTID, noun. (zoology) Any member of the Cathartidae, the New World vultures.

Dictionary definition

CATHARTID, noun. Large birds of prey superficially similar to Old World vultures.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope