condor

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. Either of two New World vultures, Vultur gryphus of the Andes or Gymnogyps californianus, a nearly extinct vulture of the mountains of California, having a bare head and neck and dull black plumage containing variable amounts of white. With a wingspan of about three meters (ten feet), they are the largest birds in the Western Hemisphere.
2. n. A gold coin of some South American countries bearing the figure of one of these vultures.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A very large South American bird of prey, Sarcorhamphus gryphus, of the family Cathartidæ or American vultures, having the head and upper part of the neck naked and largely carunculate, an exposed ruff of downy white feathers round the neck, and the general plumage blackish, varied with much white in the wings. The size of the condor has been greatly exaggerated; it is not known to exceed 9 feet in stretch of wings, and is little over 3 feet in total length. The bird inhabits chiefly the Andean regions, at elevations of from 10,000 to 15,000 feet above the sea, where it breeds, making no nest, but laying its eggs on the bare rocks. Condors are never seen in large companies, but in groups of three or four, and descend to the plain only when impelled by hunger. At such times two of them will successfully attack sheep, goats, deer, etc., though as a rule they prefer carrion.
2. n. A South American gold coin. That of Ecuador and Colombia is worth $9.647; that of Chili, $9.123.

Wiktionary

1. n. Either of two New World vultures, Vultur gryphus of the Andes or Gymnogyps californianus, a nearly extinct vulture of the mountains of California.
2. n. A gold coin of some South American countries bearing the figure of one of these vultures.
3. n. An Argentinian short range ballistic missile.
4. n. golf In golf, four under par (quadruple birdie, triple eagle, or double albatross)

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. (Zoöl.) A very large bird of the Vulture family (Sarcorhamphus gryphus), found in the most elevated parts of the Andes.
2. n. (Zoöl.), Local, U. S. The California vulture (Gymnogyps californianus), also called California condor.
3. n. A gold coin of Chile, bearing the figure of a condor, and equal to twenty pesos. It contains 10.98356 grams of gold, and is equivalent to about $7.29. Called also colon.
4. n. A gold coin of Colombia equivalent to about $9.65. It is no longer coined.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. the largest flying birds in the western hemisphere