Crossword-Solution: OSSIFRAGE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Ossifrage | n. | The lammergeir. |
| Ossifrage | n. | The young of the sea eagle or bald eagle. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| OSSIFRAGE | anagram | FOIEGRASS |
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| Asia bird | 28 answers |
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Poet’s word, with inverted comma, for the end of the day
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Hint 1 meaning
The old plural of Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
NEE
Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with OSSIFRAGE (5)
BIRDS--Eagle; Ossifrage; Ospray; Vulture; Kite; Raven; Owl; Nighthawk; Cuckoo; Hawk; Little Owl; Cormorant; Great Owl; Swan; Pelican; Gier Eagle; Stork; Heron; Lapwing; Hoopoe.
The word is said to be a corruption of Ossifrage, the "bone-breaker." As it feeds on fish, it has no big bones to break.
OSSIFRAGE, os'i-fr[=a]j, _n._ the sea or bald eagle, common in the United States: (_B._) the bearded vulture, the largest of European birds.
Thus when the Septuagint makes use of this word, _Tremellius_ and our Translation hath rendred it the Ossifrage, which is one kind of Eagle.
The ossifrage, however, a kindred species, takes charge of the young ones thus rejected, and rears them with its own; but the parent bird still pursues them with hostility, even when grown up, and drives them away, as being its rivals in rapine.