turkey vulture vs vulture

turkey vulture

noun
  • A common New World vulture, Cathartes aura. 

vulture

noun
  • Any of several carrion-eating birds of the families Accipitridae and Cathartidae. 

  • A person who profits from the suffering of others. 

verb
  • To circle around one's target as if one were a vulture. 

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