Category:Osprey

Os"prey, os"pray, n. Etym: [through of. fr. L. ossifraga (orig., the Bone breaker); prob. influenced by oripelargus (mountain stork, a Kind of eagle, gr. orpres, and f. orfraie. See ossifrage.] (zoöl.)

Defn: the fishhawk.

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---excerpt from the Illustrated Bible Dictionary

Osprey - Heb. 'ozniyyah, an unclean bird according to the Mosaic law (Leviticus 11:13; Deuteronomy 14:12); the fish-eating eagle (Pandion haliaetus); one of the lesser eagles. But the Hebrew word may be taken to denote the short-toed eagle (Circaetus gallicus of Southern Europe), one of the most abundant of the eagle tribe found in Palestine.