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Definition of vultur in English Turkish dictionary
- akbaba
Akbabaların ölünün kokusunu alabildikleri söylenir.
-It is said that vultures can smell death.
Akbabalar ölü bedenler üzerinde dönüyorlardı.
-Vultures circled over the dead bodies.
- vultur monochus
- rahip akbaba
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Definition of vultur in English English dictionary
- {n} a genus of fowls of the hawk kind
- usually restricted to the Andean condor
- vulture
- A person who profits from the suffering of others
Within ten minutes of the accident, the vultures appeared and were organizing lawsuits.
- vulture
- A vulture is a large bird which lives in hot countries and eats the flesh of dead animals
- vulture
- disapproval If you describe a person as a vulture, you disapprove of them because you think they are trying to gain from another person's troubles. With no buyer in sight for the company as a whole, the vultures started to circle. Any of 20 species of bare-headed, keen-sighted birds of prey found in temperate and tropical regions. New World vultures (family Cathartidae) are 24-28 in. (60-70 cm) long. Old World vultures (family Accipitridae) include the smallest (20 in., or 50 cm, long) and the largest vulture species. The cinereous, or black, vulture (Aegypius monachus), one of the largest living birds of flight, grows to about 40 in. (100 cm) long, weighs almost 30 lbs (13 kg), and has a 9-ft (2.7-m) wingspread. Most species eat carrion, garbage, and excrement but will occasionally eat a live animal. See also condor, marabou, turkey vulture
- vulture
- Any of several carrion-eating birds of the families Accipitridae and Cathartidae
- vulture
- any of various large diurnal birds of prey having naked heads and weak claws and feeding chiefly on carrion
- vulture
- someone who attacks in search of booty
- vulture
- {i} any of various large carrion-eating birds; predatory person or thing
- vulture
- Any one of numerous species of rapacious birds belonging to Vultur, Cathartes, Catharista, and various other genera of the family Vulturidæ
- vultures
- collectively a wake