condor

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   Either of two New World vultures, Vultur gryphus of the Andes or Gymnogyps californianus, a nearly extinct vulture of the mountains of California.

   The condor lays a couple of eggs and the ostrich a score, and yet in the same country the condor may be the more numerous of the two: the Fulmar petrel lays but one egg, yet it is believed to be the most numerous bird in the world.

2. 2
   noun

   the largest flying birds in the western hemisphere

3. 3
   noun

   A gold coin of some South American countries bearing the figure of one of these vultures.

4. 4
   noun

   An Argentinian short range ballistic missile.

From Spanish cóndor, from Classical Quechua kuntur. The change /t/ to /d/ was characteristic of the "coastal" variety of the language.

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