Look up: vulture

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   Vulture
   The vulture is a carrion eating bird.
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   vulture
   [n] - any of various large diurnal birds of prey having naked heads and weak claws and feeding chiefly on carrion
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   vulture
   a fund that invests in distressed property at bargain prices,in hopes of turning it around and selling it at a profit Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs
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   Vulture
   Vul'ture noun [ Middle English vultur , Latin vultur : confer Old French voltour , French vautour .] (Zoology) Any one of numerous species of rapacious birds belonging to Vultur , Cathartes , Catharista , and various other genera of the family Vulturidæ . » In most of the species the head and neck are naked or nearly so. They f ...
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   vulture
   <ornithology> Any one of numerous species of rapacious birds belonging to Vultur, Cathartes, Catharista, and various other genera of the family Vulturidae. ... In most of the species the head and neck are naked or nearly so. They feed chiefly on carrion. The condor, king vulture, turkey buzzard, and black vulture (Catharista atrata) are well k ...
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   vulture
   noun any of various large diurnal birds of prey having naked heads and weak claws and feeding chiefly on carrion
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   Vulture
   `Vultures` are scavenging birds, feeding mostly on the carcasses of dead animals. Vultures are found in every continent except Antarctica and Oceania. A particular characteristic of many vultures is a bald head, devoid of feathers. This is likely because a feathered head would become spattered with blood and other fluids, and thus be difficult to keep clean. A group of vultures is occasionally called a `venue`, and when circling in the air a g...
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   VULTURE
   `VULTURE` is the name of a fictional international crime cartel in the DC Comics universe. It first appeared in House of Mystery #160 July (1966), created by Jack Miller and Joe Certa.
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   Vulture
   • (n.) 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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    vulture
    any of 22 species of large, carrion-eating birds that live predominantly in the tropics and subtropics. The seven species of New World vultures ... [6 related articles]
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    vulture
    vulture, vultures 1. Any of the various large birds of prey of the New World family Cathartidae or of the Old World family Accipitridae, characteristically having dark plumage and a featherless head and neck and generally feeding on carrion. 2. Any of various large diurnal (day) birds of prey having naked heads and weak claws and feeding chiefly on carrion. 3. A l...
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    vulture
    vulture, common name for large birds of prey of temperate and tropical regions. The Old World vultures (family Accipitridae) are allied to hawks and eagles; the more ancient American vultures and condors are of a different family (Cathartidae) with distant links to storks and cormorants. American vu...
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