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nounsomeone who attacks in search of booty
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nounany of various large diurnal birds of prey having naked heads and weak claws and feeding chiefly on carriontype of:
Definition that contains vulture
- buzzard a New World vulture that is common in South America and Central America and the southern United States
- griffon large vulture of southern Europe and northern Africa having pale plumage with black wings
- carrion crow American vulture smaller than the turkey buzzard
- pharaoh's chicken small mostly white vulture of Africa and southern Eurasia
- neophron percnopterus small mostly white vulture of Africa and southern Eurasia
- family aegypiidae in some classifications considered the family comprising the Old World vultures which are more often included in the family Accipitridae
- egyptian vulture small mostly white vulture of Africa and southern Eurasia
- andean condor large vulture of the high Andes having black plumage and white neck ruff
- turkey buzzard a New World vulture that is common in South America and Central America and the southern United States
- griffon vulture large vulture of southern Europe and northern Africa having pale plumage with black wings