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vulturine

[vuhl-chuh-rahyn, -cher-in] / ˈvʌl tʃəˌraɪn, -tʃər ɪn /


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She notes that baboon groups may also come together to sleep, like the vulturine guineafowl.

From New York Times

Mandelup follows Tester as he is scouted by a vulturine manager, who we only meet once, and, believe me, once is enough.

From The New Yorker

His eyes were the worst – glittery and vulturine.

From The Guardian

The general contour and flight was far more vulturine and less falcon-like than we had expected.

From Project Gutenberg

Still, that chuckling and cavorting American fowl, that two-headed and vulturine Russo-Polish Eagle, do not quite fit into the Mongolian Arcadia of the Willow-pattern plate; now do they?

From Project Gutenberg