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US national bird
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bald eagle
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Eagle \Ea"gle\, n. [OE. egle, F. aigle, fr. L. aquila; prob. named from its color, fr. aquilus dark-colored, brown; cf. Lith. aklas blind. Cf. Aquiline .] (Zo["o]l.) Any large, rapacious bird of the Falcon family, esp. of the genera Aquila and Hali[ae]etus ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
The bald eagle ( Haliaeetus leucocephalus , from Greek hali "sea", aiētos " eagle ", leuco "white", cephalos "head") is a bird of prey found in North America. A sea eagle , it has two known subspecies and forms a species pair with the white-tailed eagle ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. ''Haliaeetus leucocephalus'', a species of eagle native to North America and notable for the white plumage on its head.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A canary the bald eagle is not, but it should serve to warn us. ▪ Here on another great pine we saw the nest of a bald eagle . ▪ Its carcass is eaten by a bald eagle , whose gut becomes lined with oil.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. large North American eagle having a white head and dark wings and body [syn: American eagle , Haliaeetus leucocephalus ]
Usage examples of bald eagle.
These handsome birds had the same snowy white head, breast and shoulders of the famous American bald eagle, and a body of lovely dark russet and glistening black.
He saw a bald eagle swoop by within a hundred yards of the noisy steamboat and snatch a two-foot fish from the surface of the bright water.
What he saw instead was a bald eagle, soaring almost close enough to touch.
It was odd, too, for a man to do paperwork in a room with steel shutters and a huge bald eagle—.
In a hollow of the Anchor, he saw broken shells in the nest of a bald eagle.