Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The snowy owl. Nyctea nivea or N. scandiaca: so called from its habit of preying upon hares.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Zoöl.) The snowy owl.
Examples
“For that matter, Google translates harfang des neiges as harfang of snows but that's a whole 'nother story apparently the English word for this bird in fact used to be harfang.”
“Janet: Thanks for mentioning harfang, an odd-sounding word in both French and English; I of course went straght to the OED, where it turns out it's originally a Swedish word: harfång, from hare 'hare' + fånga 'to catch.”
“See, I was reading a species description of snowy owl harfang des neiges on a Quebec bird list web site and Google's little "translate this page" thing translated "Les juvéniles sont uniformément bruns, avec des restes de duvet blanc éparpillés." as "The youthful ones are uniformly brown, with scattered remainders of white sleeping bag.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘harfang’.
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fasten-ating
a reflection on the Indo-European root pag & pak to fasten
peace, pay, patio, fay, fang, impact, pax, newfangled, pagan, peasant, pectin, spinto and 58 more...
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Bird Wirds: Sundry Nicknames
A list of birders' "shorthand" names, traditional nicknames, non-English names, and obsolete names for feathered creatures worldwide.
Interesting blog entry here on naming U.S. birds.welsh ambassador, goatsucker, french magpie, timberdoodle, butterbutt, popinjay, logcock, old cranky, long john, sprog, butterbum, wedgie and 697 more...
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Through the wardrobe
Places from C.S. Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia.
archenland, calormen, telmar, fords of beruna, beaversdam, cair paravel, stone table, lantern waste, lone islands, the wood between ..., charn, dancing lawn and 32 more...
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Best birds
bufflehead, iiwi, timberdoodle, kiskadee, hootamaganzy, beccaccia, hookumpake, kagu, checkerbelly, gallirex, pluvian, tinamou and 23 more...
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