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harpagones

harpagones is the plural of harpago.

harpagones is the plural of harpagone.

Meaning of harpago

Noun

harpago (plural harpagones)

  1. (historical) Synonym of corvus (“grappling hook in Ancient Roman naval warfare”).
    Synonyms:
    corvus
  2. (historical) Synonym of harpax (“Ancient Roman catapult-shot grapnel”).
    Synonyms:
    harpax

Meaning of harpagone

Noun

harpagone (plural harpagones)

  1. (plural-normally) The clasping organ of male genitalia, one of the gonopods
    • ...a pair of primitively two-segmented arms, the gonopods (claspers, forcipate claspers, anterior gonapophyses, pregonites, harpagones, parameres) arising posterolaterally on sternite 9...1981, Manual of Nearctic Diptera, volume 1, →ISBN, page 45

Questions about harpagones

What is harpagones the plural of?
Harpagones is the plural of harpago.

Words near harpagones in the dictionary

  1. harpagiferid
  2. harpagiferids
  3. harpago
  4. harpagon
  5. harpagone
  6. harpagones
  7. harpagons
  8. harpagoside
  9. harpaline
  10. harpalines
  11. Harpalyke

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Adapted from Wiktionary: harpagones (page history and authors); harpago (page history and authors); harpagone (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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