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ospray

ospray is the obsolete spelling of osprey.

Meaning of osprey

Noun

osprey (plural ospreys)

  1. A bird of prey of genus Pandion that feeds on fish and has white underparts and long, narrow wings each ending in four finger-like extensions.
    • I will provide thee of a princely osprey.1594, George Peele (attributed), The Battle of Alcazar
  2. Aigrette (ornamental feather).

See all 3 meanings of osprey

Forms of ospray

pluralosprays

Questions about ospray

What is ospray the obsolete spelling of?
Ospray is the obsolete spelling of osprey.

Words near ospray in the dictionary

  1. osphresiology
  2. osphronemid
  3. osphronemids
  4. Ospina
  5. Ospinas
  6. ospray
  7. osprays
  8. osprey
  9. ospreys
  10. Ospringe
  11. OSPs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ospray (page history and authors); osprey (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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