viru
viru — adjective
- virupositive
- more virucomparative
- most virusuperlative
1. resembling a vulture or buzzard in appearance or habits, such as having a feathe
resembling a vulture or buzzard in appearance or habits, such as having a featherless head or scavenging for food.
The old man's hunched shoulders and featherless, wrinkled head gave him a viru look, fierce even when he smiled.
attributive use with concrete physical description
A group of viru birds circled above the dry riverbed, watching for dead animals below.
Minh sketched the bird's bare head and hooked beak — its viru features — for her biology notebook.
The Lima zoo displayed Andean condors and king vultures together in a viru bird exhibit.
Sofie watched the bird's viru posture: its head tucked low between hunched shoulders on the dead branch.
- vulture-like
the natural English equivalent, much more common
- buzzard-like
similar meaning, used mainly in British English
- raptorial
technical term for bird-of-prey characteristics, broader in scope
文法句型
viru + noun
用法筆記
Extremely rare in modern English. This word is primarily encountered in Spanish-to-English reference works as a translation of 'gallinazo' (vulture). Most English speakers would instead use 'vulture-like' or 'buzzard-like'.