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gyrfalcon

UK/ˈdʒɜːfɔːlkən//ˈd͡ʒɝˌfælkən/

gyrfalcon noun: any large falcon, especially as used to fly at herons.

gyrfalcon: any large falcon, especially as used to fly at herons
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Noun

gyrfalcon (plural gyrfalcons)

  1. (obsolete) Any large falcon, especially as used to fly at herons.
    • For I obſerve, that all vvomen of your condition are like the vvomen of the Play-houſe, ſtill Piquing at each other, vvho ſhall go the beſt Dreſt, and in the Richeſt Habits: till you vvork up one another by your high flying, as the Heron and Jerfalcon do.1668 June 22 (first performance; Gregorian calendar), John Dryden, An Evening’s Love, or The Mock-Astrologer. […], In the Savoy [London]: […] T[homas] N[ewcomb] for Henry Herringman, […], published...
  2. Falco rusticolus, a large bird of prey that breeds on Arctic coasts and islands of North America, Europe and Asia.
    • [T]he usurper Buljan ordered that his sukkah be erected on the donjon's roof, with its […] relative nearness to the stars, among which his sky-worshiping and uncircumcised ancestors still hunted with infallible gyrfalcons for celestial game.2007, Michael Chabon, Gentlemen of the Road, Sceptre, published 2008, page 132

gyrfalcon meaning in Tamil and Persian

gyrfalcon in Tamil

நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும் பறவைகளில், இது ஒரு சிறப்பு இனமாகும்

gyrfalcon in Persian

Falco rusticolus
لاچین lâčin

Forms of gyrfalcon

pluralgyrfalcons
alternative formgerfalcon
alternative formgyr falcon
alternative formjerfalcon

Origin of gyrfalcon

From Old French gerfaucon (modern French gerfaut), with the first element probably from Old High German gīr (“vulture”) (whence the German Geier).

Questions about gyrfalcon

What does gyrfalcon mean?
Gyrfalcon means any large falcon, especially as used to fly at herons.
What is gyrfalcon in Tamil?
Gyrfalcon in Tamil is நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும் பறவைகளில், இது ஒரு சிறப்பு இனமாகும். See Gyrfalcon meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is gyrfalcon?
Gyrfalcon is a noun.
How do you pronounce gyrfalcon?
Gyrfalcon is pronounced /ˈdʒɜːfɔːlkən/ (UK).
What is the plural of gyrfalcon?
The plural of gyrfalcon is gyrfalcons.

Words near gyrfalcon in the dictionary

  1. gyrencephalic
  2. gyrencephaly
  3. gyrene
  4. gyrenes
  5. gyres
  6. gyrfalcon
  7. gyrfalcons
  8. gyri
  9. gyrification
  10. gyrifications
  11. gyrified

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gyrfalcon (page history and authors); gyrfalcon (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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