vulturine

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Adjective

TANDA HUBUNG

vul=tur=ine

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective vulturine has 1 sense

vulturine(s = adj.all) predatory, rapacious, raptorial, ravening, vulturous - 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"

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CIDE DICTIONARY

vulturine, 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. [1913 Webster]

"The vulturine nose, which smells nothing but corruption, is no credit to its possessor." [1913 Webster]