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vulturine

adj

Etymology

From Latin vulturinus (“vulture-like”).

  1. derived from vulturinus — “vulture-like”

Definitions

  1. Pertaining to or having characteristics of vultures.

    • Somewhat below the middle height, he was lean of body and vulturine of face.
    • Taking the cooked bird in her gnarled hands she stripped off the flesh with the few teeth she still had left in her head, gnawing on it with a vulturine concentration until it was just grey bones.

  2. Predaceous.

    • A species of crow in vast numbers is generally found to attend the larger kind of birds of prey. It is uncommonly bold and ravenous, and all its habits are vulturine […]

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Derived

vulturine guineafowl, vulturine parrot

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA