VULTURE
\vˈʌlt͡ʃə], \vˈʌltʃə], \v_ˈʌ_l_tʃ_ə]\
Definitions of VULTURE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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Any one of numerous species of rapacious birds belonging to Vultur, Cathartes, Catharista, and various other genera of the family Vulturidae.
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Any one of numerous species of rapacious birds belonging to Vultur, Cathartes, Catharista, and various other genera of the family Vulturidae.
By Noah Webster.
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A large bird of the eagle family, with weaker claws and naked head, which lives principally on carrion, or the bodies of dead animals.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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n. [Latin] A rapacious bird belonging to the hawks and the owls, and characterized by an elongated beak, of which the upper mandible is curved at the end, and by the want of feathers on the head and part of the neck. It feeds chiefly on offal and dead carcases, and acts as a kind of scavenger in the warm countries in which it is distributed.
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