vulturine

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
12
Words With Friends
17
Letters
9

Definition of vulturine

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Pertaining to or having characteristics of vultures.
    “Somewhat below the middle height, he was lean of body and vulturine of face.”
    “Taking the cooked bird in her gnarled hands she stripped off the flesh with the few teeth she still had left in her head, gnawing on it with a vulturine concentration until it was just grey bones.”
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adj

  1. Pertaining to or having characteristics of vultures.
    “Somewhat below the middle height, he was lean of body and vulturine of face.”
    “Taking the cooked bird in her gnarled hands she stripped off the flesh with the few teeth she still had left in her head, gnawing on it with a vulturine concentration until it was just grey bones.”
  2. Predaceous.
    “A species of crow in vast numbers is generally found to attend the larger kind of birds of prey. It is uncommonly bold and ravenous, and all its habits are vulturine […]”

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Etymology

From Latin vulturinus (“vulture-like”).

Anagrams of vulturine

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