ossifrage

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Gypaetus barbatus, the bearded vulture, the diet of which is almost exclusively bone marrow. archaic
    — And these are they which ye shall have in abomination among the fowls; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray […]
  2. The young of the sea eagle or bald eagle. obsolete
  3. The osprey. UK
    — And their young Ospraies bee counted a kind of Ossifragi: from them come the lesser Geires, they againe breed the greater, which engender not at all. Some reckon yet another kind of Ægle, which they cal Barbatæ; and the Tuscanes, Ossifrage.

词形变化

ossifrages plural

词汇关系

相关词
ossiphagy

词源

From Middle French ossifrage, from Latin ossifraga (“osprey”), ossifragus (“osprey”), from ossifragus (“bone breaking”).
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