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Webster 1913 Edition


Ospray

{

Os′prey

,

Os′pray

}
,
Noun.
[Through OF. fr. L.
ossifraga
(orig., the bone breaker); prob. influenced by
oripelargus
(mountain stork, a kind of eagle, Gr. [GREEK]); cf. OF.
orpres
, and F.
orfraie
. See
Ossifrage
.]
(Zool.)
The fishhawk (
Pandion haliaetus
).

Webster 1828 Edition


Ospray

OS'PRAY

,
Noun.
[L. ossifraga; as, a bone, and frango, to break; the bone-breaker.]
The sea-eagle, a fowl of the genus Falco or hawk, of the size of a peacock. This is our fish hawk. It feeds on fish which it takes by suddenly darting upon them, when near the surface of the water.

Definition 2024


ospray

ospray

English

Noun

ospray (plural osprays)

  1. Dated form of osprey.