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Vulturine

adjective
1.
Living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey.  Synonyms: predatory, rapacious, raptorial, ravening, vulturous.  "The rapacious wolf" , "Raptorial birds" , "Ravening wolves" , "A vulturine taste for offal"






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"Vulturine" Quotes from Famous Books



... right was young, clean-shaven, and of a somewhat vulturine cast of countenance. His face was cold and impassive now, almost forbiddingly so; but only half an hour before it had been a battle-field of conflicting emotions, and his hat still showed the dent where he had banged ...
— The Man with Two Left Feet - and Other Stories • P. G. Wodehouse



Words linked to "Vulturine" :   rapacious, ravening, predatory, raptorial, vulturous, aggressive



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