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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Vulturine

Vulturine \Vul"tur*ine\ (?; 277), a. [L. vulturinus.] Of or pertaining to a vulture; resembling a vulture in qualities or looks; as, the vulturine sea eagle ( Gypohierax Angolensis); vulturine rapacity.

The vulturine nose, which smells nothing but corruption, is no credit to its possessor.
--C. Kingsley.

Wiktionary
vulturine

a. 1 Pertaining to vultures. 2 predaceous.

WordNet
vulturine

adj. living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey; "a predatory bird"; "the rapacious wolf"; "raptorial birds"; "ravening wolves"; "a vulturine taste for offal" [syn: predatory, rapacious, raptorial, ravening, vulturous]

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Vulturine

Vulturine may refer to:

  • Vulturine guineafowl, the largest and most spectacular of the guineafowl bird family
  • Vulturine parrot, a Neotropical parrot

Usage examples of "vulturine".

Strasburg pie, the smoked tongue, the other side-dishes, a noble Minorcan cheese, dessert and a capital port overlaid the unfortunate, even vulturine memory of the geese.

And though he was thin to the point of scrawniness, at some time in the not too distant past he must have grown enormously fat, for the flesh of his face had fallen into crevices, and vast hollow wattles transformed his neck into a vulturine travesty.

They were of a hundred varieties: black and white ibis with vulturine heads, sacred to the goddess of the river.