different between herons vs gyrfalcon
herons
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?h?.??nz/
- Rhymes: -???nz
Noun
herons
- plural of heron
Anagrams
- Honers, honers, hornes, horsen, nosher, rhones, senhor
Middle English
Noun
herons
- plural of heron
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gyrfalcon
English
Wikispecies
Alternative forms
- gerfalcon, jerfalcon
Etymology
From Old French gerfaucon (modern French gerfaut), with the first element probably from Old High German g?r (“vulture”) (whence the German Geier).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?d???f??lk?n/
- (US) IPA(key): /?d???fælk?n/
Noun
gyrfalcon (plural gyrfalcons)
- (obsolete) Any large falcon, especially as used to fly at herons.
- Falco rusticolus, a large bird of prey that breeds on Arctic coasts and islands of North America, Europe and Asia.
- 2007, Michael Chabon, Gentlemen of the Road, Sceptre 2008, p. 132:
- [...] the usurper Buljan ordered that his sukkah be erected on the donjon's roof, with its [...] relative nearness to the stars, among which his sky-worshiping and uncircumcised ancestors still hunted with infallible gyrfalcons for celestial game.
- 2007, Michael Chabon, Gentlemen of the Road, Sceptre 2008, p. 132:
Translations
Further reading
- Falco rusticolus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
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