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: vul-tu-rous. The stress falls on "vul".

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.