vultureling
Appearance
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]vultureling (plural vulturelings)
- A small, young, or immature vulture.
- 1892, Blackwood's Edinburgh magazine, volume 151, page 735:
- Next morning at breakfast the supposed vultureling is found to be subdued and silent, […]
- 1911, Charles Fletcher Lummis, The gold fish of Gran Chimú:
- […] 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 !
- 1964, Indian Writers in Conference: Proceedings, page 142:
- " […] But Periaswamy Iyer was no easy quarry for a vultureling".