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1. (adj.) vulturine
of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a vulture.
2. vulturine
resembling a vulture, esp. in rapacious or predatory qualities.
Etymology: (1640–50; < L)
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1. (adj) predatory, rapacious, raptorial, ravening, vulturine, vulturous
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"
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1. (adj) vulturine
of or pertaining to a vulture; resembling a vulture in qualities or looks; as, the vulturine sea eagle (Gypohierax Angolensis); vulturine rapacity
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