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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 vul·tur·ine /-ʧəˌraɪn/
 (a.)禿鷹似的,貪婪的,掠食的

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Vul·tur·ine a.  Of or pertaining to a vulture; resembling a vulture in qualities or looks; as, the vulturine sea eagle (Gypohierax Angolensis); vulturine rapacity.
    The vulturine nose, which smells nothing but corruption, is no credit to its possessor.   --C. Kingsley.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 vulturine
      adj : living by preying on other animals especially by catching
            living prey; "a predatory bird"; "the rapacious wolf";
            "raptorial birds"; "ravening wolves"; "a vulturine
            taste for offal" [syn: predatory, rapacious, raptorial,
             ravening, vulturous]