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