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Vulturine

Vulturine Meaning & Definition
Vulturine Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of 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"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Vulturine: aggressive | predatory | rapacious | raptorial | ravening | vulturous

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Vulturine In Webster's Dictionary

\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.

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