Noun: vulture
| Singular | vulture |
| Plural | vultures |
Sample Sentences
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The outer third of the wing of a vulture consists of the wing tips. The inner two-thirds of the wing are cambered (when the wing is extended), and are concerned with lifting effort in unsoarable air and with lifting and tractive effort in soarable air. [1912, Flight:]
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In clusters on the plain, like cowlless monks at matins, sat the vultures that had settled on the corpse of the hyena impaled by the female rhino […] [1982, Michael Bishop, No enemy but time:]
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Within ten minutes of the accident, the vultures appeared and were organizing lawsuits.
Nouns inflected like vulture
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed into Middle English from Anglo-Norman vultur, from Old French voutoir, voutre, from Latin vultur, voltur. Displaced native Old English ūf. See: Latin Nouns '
vultur'.
Verbs referencing "vulture"
Irish Nouns
bultúr.