vulturine Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey
    raptorial; rapacious; vulturous; ravening; predatory.
    • a predatory bird
    • the rapacious wolf
    • raptorial birds
    • ravening wolves
    • a vulturine taste for offal

WordNet

Vul"tur*ine adjective
Etymology
L. vulturinus.
Definitions
  1. 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.

Webster 1913