Crossword clues for bald eagle
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bald eagle \Bald" ea"gle\ (Zo["o]l.) The white-headed eagle ( Hali[ae]etus leucocephalus) of America. The young, until several years old, lack the white feathers on the head.
Note: The bald eagle is represented in the coat of arms, and on the coins, of the United States.
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. The eagle is remarkable for strength, size, graceful figure, keenness of vision, and extraordinary flight. The most noted species are the golden eagle ( Aquila chrysa["e]tus); the imperial eagle of Europe ( Aquila mogilnik or Aquila imperialis); the American bald eagle ( Hali[ae]etus leucocephalus); the European sea eagle ( Hali[ae]etus albicilla); and the great harpy eagle ( Thrasaetus harpyia). The figure of the eagle, as the king of birds, is commonly used as an heraldic emblem, and also for standards and emblematic devices. See Bald eagle, Harpy, and Golden eagle.
A gold coin of the United States, of the value of ten dollars.
(Astron.) A northern constellation, containing Altair, a star of the first magnitude. See Aquila.
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The figure of an eagle borne as an emblem on the standard of the ancient Romans, or so used upon the seal or standard of any people.
Though the Roman eagle shadow thee.
--Tennyson.Note: Some modern nations, as the United States, and France under the Bonapartes, have adopted the eagle as their national emblem. Russia, Austria, and Prussia have for an emblem a double-headed eagle.
Bald eagle. See Bald eagle.
Bold eagle. See under Bold.
Double eagle, a gold coin of the United States worth twenty dollars.
Eagle hawk (Zo["o]l.), a large, crested, South American hawk of the genus Morphnus.
Eagle owl (Zo["o]l.), any large owl of the genus Bubo, and allied genera; as the American great horned owl ( Bubo Virginianus), and the allied European species ( B. maximus). See Horned owl.
Eagle ray (Zo["o]l.), any large species of ray of the genus Myliobatis (esp. M. aquila).
Eagle vulture (Zo["o]l.), a large West African bid ( Gypohierax Angolensis), intermediate, in several respects, between the eagles and vultures.
Wiktionary
n. ''Haliaeetus leucocephalus'', a species of eagle native to North America and notable for the white plumage on its head.
WordNet
n. large North American eagle having a white head and dark wings and body [syn: American eagle, Haliaeetus leucocephalus]
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 (Haliaeetus albicilla). Its range includes most of Canada and Alaska, all of the contiguous United States, and northern Mexico. It is found near large bodies of open water with an abundant food supply and old-growth trees for nesting.
The bald eagle is an opportunistic feeder which subsists mainly on fish, which it swoops down and snatches from the water with its talons. It builds the largest nest of any North American bird and the largest tree nests ever recorded for any animal species, up to deep, wide, and in weight. Sexual maturity is attained at the age of four to five years.
Bald eagles are not actually bald; the name derives from an older meaning of the word, "white headed". The adult is mainly brown with a white head and tail. The sexes are identical in plumage, but females are about 25 percent larger than males. The beak is large and hooked. The plumage of the immature is brown.
The bald eagle is both the national bird and national animal of the United States of America. The bald eagle appears on its seal. In the late 20th century it was on the brink of extirpation in the contiguous United States. Populations have since recovered and the species was removed from the U.S. government's list of endangered species on July 12, 1995 and transferred to the list of threatened species. It was removed from the List of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife in the Lower 48 States on June 28, 2007.
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Bald Eagle (1955–1977) was an American-bred Thoroughbred Eclipse Award-winning racehorse who competed successfully in both the United Kingdom and the United States. He won the Washington, D.C. International Stakes twice, in 1959 and 1960.
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.