Ossifrage
/ˈɒsɪfɹɪd͡ʒ/ noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 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. 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."
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More examples"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 […]"
Etymology
From Middle French ossifrage, from Latin ossifraga (“osprey”), ossifragus (“osprey”), from ossifragus (“bone breaking”).