Meanings
comparative more vulturine · superlative most vulturine
- Pertaining to or having characteristics of vultures.
Somewhat below the middle height, he was lean of body and vulturine of face.
1912, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 2, in The Prince and Betty, New York: W.J. Watt, page 101 more example
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.
2004, Andrea Levy, chapter 6, in Small Island, London: Review, pages 87–88 - 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 […]
1806, John Barrow, chapter 2, in Travels into the Interior of Southern Africa, volume I, London: T. Cadell & W. Davies, page 178
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveliving by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Latinvulturinus“vulture-like”
- Englishvulturine
From Latin vulturinus (“vulture-like”).
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Welsh fwlturaidd
- fwlturaiddvulture-like
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vulturine. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/vulturine
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