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vulture

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"Scavenging bird"

7 letters · collected on this word page

7 lettersPronunciation /ˈvʌltʃə/Part of speech nounSorted elrtuuvStarts with VEnds with E1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. 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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