ossifrage

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The ossifrage is a species of eagle.

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  1. noun See lammergeier.
  2. noun Archaic An osprey.

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  • What is the full name of the research partner of a cryptographer who's first name matches the name of a dog on a tv show which has featured a vessel named after the video game played in a movie filmed near the largest city served by the United States telephone area code matching the greatest prime factor of the number of the asteroid named after the person possibly killed by a squeamish ossifrage? —  Planet Ubuntu
  • The ossifrage is a species of eagle. —  The Man Who Laughs
  • DEU 14: 12 But these are they of which ye shall not eat: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray, —  Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions
  • 05: 014: 012 But these are they of which ye shall not eat: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray, —  New Etext of Bible [King James Version]
  • "squeamish ossifrage" is a tribute to the RSA crypto cipher challenge Ron Rivest posed in —  Planet Ubuntu
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  1. Latin ossifraga, from ossifragus, bone-breaking : os, oss-, bone; see ost- in Indo-European roots + frangere, to break; see bhreg- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Latin ossifragus, masculine, ossifraga, feminine, the sea-eagle, ossifrage, from ossifragus (later Spanish osífrago = French ossifrage), bone-breaking, from os (oss-), bone, + frangere (√ frag), break: see fragile. Cf. osprey, orfray.
 

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/ˈɑsɪfrədʒ/
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