vulturous

Questions about vulturous

What does vulturous mean?

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

How many syllables are in vulturous?

vulturous has 3 syllables and divides as vul-tu-rous 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 vulturous?

Close synonyms include predatory, rapacious, raptorial, ravening, vulturine. 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 vulturous a common word?

vulturous is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. 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 vulturous come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.