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What does Old World mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word Old World? Here's what it means.

Proper noun
  1. The Eastern Hemisphere, especially Europe and the Near East.
  2. The known world before the discovery of the Americas.
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Unlike birds of prey, the talons of Old World vultures are relatively weak and unsuitable as weapons of attack.
Homesick colonists brought their favorite flowers, medicinals, and edibles from the Old World.
That also seems to be the case with some of the other New World quail and appears to reflect a bit of Old World bias of the authors.
By contrast, many Old World monkeys, such as baboons and macaques, live longer, start to reproduce later, and have more time between babies.
The twenty-dollar gift may allow him to slough off the backwardness of the Old World.
Additional Old World families of this large order include bee-eaters, ground-rollers, hoopoes, wood-hoopoes, and hornbills.

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