Definitions
any of various large diurnal birds of prey having naked heads and weak claws and feeding chiefly on carrion
Word origin
Borrowed into Middle English from Anglo-Norman vultur, from Old French voutoir, voutre, from Latin vultur, voltur. Displaced native Old English ūf.
Used in a sentence
“In clusters on the plain, like cowlless monks at matins, sat the vultures that had settled on the corpse of the hyena impaled by the female rhino […]”
“Within ten minutes of the accident, the vultures appeared and were organizing lawsuits.”
“Rudy vultured when asking the girl out.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Scavenging bird”7 letters
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