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PREDATOR |
Vulture |
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GRYPHON |
The griffin vulture. |
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GRIPE |
A vulture; the griffin. |
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GRYPE |
A vulture; the griffin. |
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VULTUROUS |
Like a vulture; rapacious. |
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ZOPILOTE |
The urubu, or American black vulture. |
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RAVENER |
A bird of prey, as the owl or vulture. |
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QUARRY |
To secure prey; to prey, as a vulture or harpy. |
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VULTURISM |
The quality or state of being like a vulture;
rapaciousness. |
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RAVENOUS |
Devouring with rapacious eagerness; furiously voracious;
hungry even to rage; as, a ravenous wolf or vulture. |
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URUBU |
The black vulture (Catharista atrata). It ranges from the
Southern United States to South America. See Vulture. |
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CONDOR |
A very large bird of the Vulture family (Sarcorhamphus
gryphus), found in the most elevated parts of the Andes. |
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GIER-EAGLE |
A bird referred to in the Bible (Lev. xi. 18and Deut.
xiv. 17) as unclean, probably the Egyptian vulture (Neophron
percnopterus). |
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VULTURINE |
Of or pertaining to a vulture; resembling a vulture in
qualities or looks; as, the vulturine sea eagle (Gypohierax
Angolensis); vulturine rapacity. |
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HARPY |
A fabulous winged monster, ravenous and filthy, having the
face of a woman and the body of a vulture, with long claws, and the
face pale with hunger. Some writers mention two, others three. |
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GRIFFON |
A species of large vulture (Gyps fulvus) found in the
mountainous parts of Southern Europe, North Africa, and Asia Minor; --
called also gripe,... |
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PROMETHEUS |
... to bind
Prometheus to Mount Caucasus, where a vulture preyed upon his liver. ... |
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LAMMERGEIER |
A very large vulture (Gypaetus barbatus), which
inhabits the mountains of Southern Europe, Asia, and Northern Africa.
When full-grown it is nin... |