vulturine : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: vulturine	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for vulturine
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [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" Synonym(s): predatory, rapacious, raptorial, ravening, vulturine, vulturous
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Vulturine \Vul"turine\ (?; 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.