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Definition of Coragyps atratus
1. Noun. American vulture smaller than the turkey buzzard.
Exact synonyms: Black Vulture, Carrion Crow
Generic synonyms: Cathartid, New World Vulture
Group relationships: Coragyps, Genus Coragyps
Generic synonyms: Cathartid, New World Vulture
Group relationships: Coragyps, Genus Coragyps
Lexicographical Neighbors of Coragyps Atratus
Literary usage of Coragyps atratus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Birds of Jamaica: Being a History of the Bird, Its Structure, and Habits by Philip Henry Gosse, Alfred Edmund Brehm, Richard Hill (1874)
"... Ictinia); one Caracara (Polyborus); one big Vulture (Sarcoramphus californianus);
and two other Vultures (Cathartes aura and Coragyps atratus); ..."
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