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vulturine

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9 lettersPart of speech adjectiveSorted eilnrtuuvStarts with VEnds with E0 clues
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Definitions

  1. living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey

Word origin

From Latin vulturinus (“vulture-like”).

Used in a sentence

  • Somewhat below the middle height, he was lean of body and vulturine of face.
  • Taking the cooked bird in her gnarled hands she stripped off the flesh with the few teeth she still had left in her head, gnawing on it with a vulturine concentration until it was just grey bones.
  • A species of crow in vast numbers is generally found to attend the larger kind of birds of prey. It is uncommonly bold and ravenous, and all its habits are vulturine […]

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