vultureling

English

Etymology

From vulture +‎ -ling.

Noun

vultureling (plural vulturelings)

1. 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".