Plural of talon

Forms of talon

Talons in a sentence

• The animal fell backward, its talons in a deathlock on the sill of the empty window frame.2010, S.M. Stirling, The Sky People, →ISBN. From the entry deathlock
• The sharp talons raked straight through the scalemail down the back of her left arm and snapped her bow in two.2006, Blake Garrett Anderson, The Dragonheroes (The Birth of Terralax; 1), [Bradenton, Fla.]: Booklocker.com, Inc., →ISBN, page 355. From the entry scalemail
• Mabob dashed after it and, before the whompem hit the ground, Mabob had sunk a footful of talons into its spine.1991, Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine - Volume 15, page 143. From the entry footful
• Strong legs with talons can grab and hold their victims.1946, North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission, Wildlife in North Carolina, N. C. Wildlife Resources Commission, page 28. From the entry midair
• It was a red drama of the primitive—destruction amuck and ariot, the primordial embodied in fangs and talons, gone mad and plunging in slaughter.1935 February, Robert E. Howard, chapter 5, in Weird Tales. From the entry ariot

Meaning of talon

1. noun A sharp, hooked claw of a bird of prey or other predatory animal.
2. noun One of certain small prominences on the hind part of the face of an elephant's tooth.
3. noun A kind of moulding, concave at the bottom and convex at the top; an ogee. (When the concave part is at the top, it is called an inverted talon.).

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Questions about the plural of talon

What is the plural of talon?

The plural of talon is talons.

Is talon countable?

Talon is a countable noun.