vulture
/ˈvʌlt͡ʃɚ/ noun B2- Any of several carrion-eating birds of the families Accipitridae and Cathartidae.
- A person who profits from the suffering of others. · Within ten minutes of the accident, the vultures appeared and were organizing lawsuits.
Plural vultures
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When they stopped suddenly to catch their breath for a fiercer renewal of the fight, they saw some Vultures waiting in the distance to feast on the one that should fall first.
They at once made up their quarrel, saying, “It is better for us to make friends, than to become the food of Crows or Vultures.”
A red-veined nose jutted out like a vulture's beak, and two fierce grey eyes glared at me from under tufted brows.
“How comes it that all do not retreat in aversion at sight of that flat, receding, serpent-like forehead, round, vulture-shaped head, and sharp-hooked nose, like the beak of a buzzard?
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