vulture

Akbabalar tarafından gagalanan ölü bir geyik, diğer hayvanlar tarafından kısmen yenilmiş kalır, o tür çürümüş ete leş denir. - A dead deer being pecked by vultures, remains partly eaten by other animals, that sort of rotten meat is called 'carrion'.

Bir cesedin olduğu yerde, akbabalar bulacaksın. - Where there's a body, you'll find vultures.

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Definition of vulture in English English dictionary: A person who profits from the suffering of others
Within ten minutes of the accident, the vultures appeared and were organizing lawsuits.; Any of several carrion-eating birds of the families Accipitridae and Cathartidae; A vulture is a large bird which lives in hot countries and eats the flesh of dead animals; 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; any of various large diurnal birds of prey having naked heads and weak claws and feeding chiefly on carrion; someone who attacks in search of booty; {i} any of various large carrion-eating birds; predatory person or thing; Any one of numerous species of rapacious birds belonging to Vultur, Cathartes, Catharista, and various other genera of the family Vulturidæ
American black vulture: A black vulture, Coragyps atratus
Eurasian black vulture: A large vulture living in Europe and Asia
Himalayan griffon vulture: An Old World vulture, Gyps himalayensis
black vulture: A north African and Eurasian vulture species, Aegypius monachus
black vulture: An American vulture species, Coragyps atratus, with black plumage
black-vulture: Attributive form of black vulture, noun
cinereous vulture: A Eurasian black vulture, Aegypius monachus
culture vulture: A person with a rapacious, possibly forced, interest in the arts
Be a culture vulture by going to the ballet, opera or a classical concert.
griffon vulture: A bird of prey of the family Accipitridae, Gyps fulvus
griffon-vulture: Attributive form of griffon vulture, noun
monk vulture: Alternative name of Eurasian black vulture
Bearded Vulture: (Ticaret) The Bearded Vulture (Gypaetus barbatus), also known as the Lammergeier or Lammergeyer, is a bird of prey, and the only member of the genus Gypaetus. Traditionally considered an Old World vulture, it actually forms a minor lineage of Accipitridae together with the Egyptian Vulture (Neophron percnopterus), its closest living relative
vultur: {n} a genus of fowls of the hawk kind
bearded vulture: the largest Eurasian bird of prey; having black feathers hanging around the bill
black vulture: of southern Eurasia and northern Africa American vulture smaller than the turkey buzzard
black vulture: A carrion-eating bird (Coragyps atratus) of central North America and South America, having black plumage and a bald black head
black vulture: American vulture smaller than the turkey buzzard
black vulture: of southern Eurasia and northern Africa
egyptian vulture: small mostly white vulture of Africa and southern Eurasia
griffon vulture: large vulture of southern Europe and northern Africa having pale plumage with black wings
king vulture: {i} large vulture
king vulture: large black-and-white vulture of South America and Central America; have colorful wattles and wartlike protuberances on head and neck
new world vulture: large birds of prey superficially similar to Old World vultures
old world vulture: any of several large vultures of Africa and Eurasia
turkey vulture: A New World vulture (Cathartes aura) having dark plumage and a bare red head and neck similar to that of the turkey. Also called turkey buzzard. or turkey buzzard Species (Cathartes aura) of long-winged, long-tailed vulture (family Cathartidae), about 30 in. (75 cm) long, with dark plumage, whitish beak and legs, bare red head covered with whitish bumps, and a 6-ft (1.8-m) wingspread. It uses its keen sense of smell to find carrion. It occurs throughout the Americas except in northern Canada; the northerly and southernmost populations are migratory
vultur: usually restricted to the Andean condor
vultures: collectively a wake

vulture

Hyphenation

vul·ture

Turkish pronunciation

vʌlçır

Pronunciation

/ˈvəlʧər/ /ˈvʌlʧɜr/

Etymology

[ 'v&l-ch&r ] (noun.) 14th century. From Latin vultur, voltur.

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