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vulturine, a.|ˈvʌltjʊəraɪn|
[ad. L. vulturīn-us, f. vultur vulture n.: see -ine.]
1. Of or belonging to the vulture tribe; resembling a vulture:
a. In names of birds.
1647Trapp Comm. Matt. xxiv. 28 The vulturine eagles especially..follow armies, and feed on carcases. a1672Willughby Ornith. (1678) 64 The Vulturine Eagle of Aldrovandus, called Percnopteros. 1809Shaw Gen. Zool. VII. 58 Vulturine Eagle, Falco vulturinus. Ibid. 343 Vulturine Raven, Corvus vulturinus. 1849Sk. Nat. Hist., Mammalia III. 48 The vulturine eagle..makes the mountain precipices its abode. 1872Coues N. Amer. Birds 21 A little orbital space is bare in many birds, as the vulturine hawks, and some pigeons. 1880Cassell's Nat. Hist. III. 313 On the coast the chief enemy of the Parrots is the Vulturine Sea-Eagle (Gypohierax angolensis).
b. In general use. Also fig.
1721Bailey, Vulturine,..rapacious. 1790Pennant Tour Scotl. i. 58 He..sells it at five shillings,..thus happily disappointing the rapacity of the vulturine monopolizer. 1843Landor Imag. Conv. Wks. 1846 II. 229/1 Even the petticoated torch-bearers from rotten Rome, if more blustering,..were less bitter and vulturine. 1880Swinburne Stud. Shaks. 207 But the virtuous critic, after the alleged nature of the vulturine kind, would appear to have eyes and ears and nose for nothing else. 1886Guillemard Cruise Marchesa II. 219 The rare Pesquet's Parrot,..half vulturine in appearance and with the face and throat bare.
2. Of or pertaining to a vulture or vultures; characteristic of, like that of, a vulture.
1656Blount Glossogr., Vulturine, pertaining to the ravenous Bird called a Vulture. 1658Phillips, Vulturine, belonging to a Vultur or Geyr. 1852Zoologist X. 3646 It has..the real vulturine fondness for carrion. 1855Kingsley Misc., Raleigh (1859) I. 31 There is no more to be discovered in the matter, save by the vulturine nose which smells a carrion in every rose-bed. 1882E. O'Donovan Merv Oasis II. 130 An uneasy, vulturine expression of the eye, the pupil being quite surrounded by the white. |