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Ossifrage

//ˈɒsɪfɹɪd͡ʒ// noun

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Noun
  1. 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. 2
    The young of the sea eagle or bald eagle. obsolete
  3. 3
    The osprey. British

    "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."

Etymology

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

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