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VULTUROUS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does vulturous mean?
• VULTUROUS (adjective)
The adjective VULTUROUS has 1 sense:
1. living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey
Familiarity information: VULTUROUS used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey
Synonyms:
predatory; rapacious; raptorial; ravening; vulturine; vulturous
Context example:
a vulturine taste for offal
Similar:
aggressive (having or showing determination and energetic pursuit of your ends)
Derivation:
vulture (any of various large diurnal birds of prey having naked heads and weak claws and feeding chiefly on carrion)
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