gyrfalcon
English
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Alternative forms
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French gerfaucon (modern French gerfaut), with the first element probably from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old High German gīr (“vulture”) (whence the German Geier).
Pronunciation
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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
falcon — see falcon
Falco rusticolus
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Further reading
Falco rusticolus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies