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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A large eagle (Harpia harpyja) of Neotropical rainforests, having black, white, and gray plumage and a crest of long feathers on the head.
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- noun A
neotropical eagle ,Harpia harpyja
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- noun large black-and-white crested eagle of tropical America
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[After the Harpies, perhaps in reference to the plumage of the harpy eagle's head, highly differentiated from that of the body.]
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