Associations to the word «Vulturine»

Wiktionary

VULTURINE, adjective. Pertaining to vultures.
VULTURINE, adjective. Predaceous.

Dictionary definition

VULTURINE, adjective. 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".

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope