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vultureling en · NOUN

Etymology

From vulture + -ling.

Meanings

1. A small, young, or immature vulture.
   • "[…] But Periaswamy Iyer was no easy quarry for a vultureling". 1964, Indian Writers in Conference: Proceedings, page 142:
   • Next morning at breakfast the supposed vultureling is found to be subdued and silent, […] 1892, Blackwood's Edinburgh magazine, volume 151, page 735:
   • […] Vamos, vultureling and eaglet," broke in the Maestro. "We have enough measured now for a while, and to-morrow you can bait your hooks for the Big Fish. Ay ! 1911, Charles Fletcher Lummis, The gold fish of Gran Chimú:

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