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condor (plural condors or condor)
- 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.1
- (plural condors or condores) A gold coin of some South American countries bearing the figure of one of these vultures.
- An Argentinian short range ballistic missile.
- (golf) The completion of a hole four strokes under par (a quadruple birdie, triple eagle, or double albatross).
- (finance) A combination of four options of the same type at four strike prices, giving limited profit and limited risk.
Etymology
From Spanish cóndor, from Classical Quechua kuntur. The change/t/to/d/was characteristic of the “coastal” variety of the language.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈkɒndɔː/, /ˈkɒndə/
- (General American) IPA: /ˈkɑnˌdoɹ/, /ˈkɑndəɹ/
- Audio (Southern England): 🔊
- Rhymes: -ɒndɔː(ɹ), -ɒndə(ɹ)
- (/-əɹ/) Homophones: chondre, conder
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Link to original Footnotes
1859, Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species: ↩
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