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vulturine
[vuhl-chuh-rahyn, -cher-in]
adjective
of, relating to, or characteristic of a vulture.
resembling a vulture, especially in rapacious or predatory qualities.
a vulturine critic.
vulturine
/ ˈʌʃəˌɪ /
adjective
of, relating to, or resembling a vulture
Also: vulturous.rapacious, predatory, or greedy
Other Word Forms
- unvulturine adjective
- unvulturous adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of vulturine1
Example Sentences
She notes that baboon groups may also come together to sleep, like the vulturine guineafowl.
Mandelup follows Tester as he is scouted by a vulturine manager, who we only meet once, and, believe me, once is enough.
His eyes were the worst – glittery and vulturine.
The general contour and flight was far more vulturine and less falcon-like than we had expected.
Still, that chuckling and cavorting American fowl, that two-headed and vulturine Russo-Polish Eagle, do not quite fit into the Mongolian Arcadia of the Willow-pattern plate; now do they?
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