Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Vulturine

Vulturine (?; 277) , adjective

[Latin vulturinus.]

Of or pertaining to a vulture; resembling a vulture in qualities or looks; as, the vulturine sea eagle (Gypohierax Angolensis); vulturine rapacity.
The vulturine nose, which smells nothing but corruption, is no credit to its possessor. — C. Kingsley