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vulturine


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  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. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  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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