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ossifrages

ossifrages is the plural of ossifrage.

Meaning of ossifrage

Noun

ossifrage (plural ossifrages)

  1. (archaic) Gypaetus barbatus, the bearded vulture, the diet of which is almost exclusively bone marrow.
    • And these are they which ye shall have in abomination among the fowls; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray […]1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Leviticus 11:13
  2. (obsolete) The young of the sea eagle or bald eagle.
  3. (UK) The osprey.
    • And their young Ospraies bee counted a kind of Ossifragi: from them come the lesser Geires, they againe breed the greater, which engender not at all. Some reckon yet another kind of Ægle, which they cal Barbatæ; and the Tuscanes, Ossifrage.1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “[Book X.] 3.”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […]...

Questions about ossifrages

What is ossifrages the plural of?
Ossifrages is the plural of ossifrage.

Words near ossifrages in the dictionary

  1. ossifluent
  2. ossiform
  3. ossifraga
  4. ossifragas
  5. ossifrage
  6. ossifrages
  7. ossifragous
  8. ossify
  9. ossifying
  10. ossilegium
  11. Ossining

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