turkey vulture

turkey vulture

noun

Definition of TURKEY VULTURE

: an American vulture (Cathartes aura) with a red head and whitish bill —called also turkey buzzard

First Known Use of TURKEY VULTURE

1823

Rhymes with TURKEY VULTURE

agriculture, apiculture, aquaculture, aviculture, counterculture, floriculture, horticulture, mariculture, microculture, monoculture, permaculture, silviculture, viniculture

turkey vulture

noun    (Concise Encyclopedia)

Species (Cathartes aura) of long-winged, long-tailed vulture (family Cathartidae), about 30 in. (75 cm) long, with dark plumage, whitish beak and legs, bare red head covered with whitish bumps, and a 6-ft (1.8-m) wingspread. It uses its keen sense of smell to find carrion. It occurs throughout the Americas except in northern Canada; the northerly and southernmost populations are migratory.

Variants of TURKEY VULTURE

turkey vulture or turkey buzzard