||Vul"pes (?), n. [L., a fox.] (Zoöl.) A genus of Carnivora including
||the foxes.
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Vul"pic (?), a. (Chem.) Pertaining to, derived from, or designating, an
acid obtained from a lichen (Cetraria vulpina) as a yellow or red
crystalline substance which on decomposition yields pulvinic acid.
Vul"pi*cide (?), n. [L. vulpes a fox + caedere to kill.] One who kills
a fox, except in hunting; also, the act of so killing a fox. [Written
also vulpecide.]
Vul"pine (?; 277), a. [L. vulpinus, from vulpes a fox.] Of or
pertaining to the fox; resembling the fox; foxy; cunning; crafty;
artful.
Vulpine phalangist (Zoöl.), an Australian carnivorous marsupial
(Phalangista, or Trichosurus, vulpina); — called also vulpine
phalanger, and vulpine opossum.
Vul*pin"ic (?), a. (Chem.) Same as Vulpic.
Vul"pin*ism (?), n. The quality of being cunning like the fox; craft;
artfulness. [R.]
He was without guile, and had no vulpinism at all.
Carlyle.
Vul"pi*nite (?), n. [So called after Vulpino, in Italy.] (Min.) A scaly
granular variety of anhydrite of a grayish white color, used for
ornamental purposes.
Vul"tern (?), n. (Zoöl.) The brush turkey (Talegallus Lathami) of
Australia. See Brush turkey.
Vul"ture (?; 135), n. [OE. vultur, L. vultur: cf. OF. voltour, F.
vautour.] (Zoöl.) Any one of numerous species of rapacious birds
belonging to Vultur, Cathartes, Catharista, and various other genera of
the family Vulturidæ.
In most of the species the head and neck are naked or nearly so. They
feed chiefly on carrion. The condor, king vulture, turkey buzzard, and
black vulture (Catharista atrata) are well known American species. The
griffin, lammergeir, and Pharaoh's chicken, or Egyptian vulture, are
common Old World vultures.
Vul"tur*ine (?; 277), a. [L. vulturinus.] Of or pertaining to a
vulture; resembling a vulture in qualities or looks; as, the vulturine
sea eagle (Gypohierax Angolensis); vulturine rapacity.
The vulturine nose, which smells nothing but corruption, is no credit
to its possessor.