vulturine

Questions about vulturine

What does vulturine mean?

vulturine means "living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey".

How many syllables are in vulturine?

vulturine has 3 syllables and divides as vul-tu-rine under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for vulturine?

Close synonyms include predatory, rapacious, raptorial, ravening, vulturous. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is vulturine a common word?

vulturine is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for vulturine come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.