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Falcon

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Word	Definition
hawknoun	A diurnal predatory bird of the family Accipitridae, smaller than an eagle.
lannernoun	The lanner falcon, Falco biarmicus.
birdnoun	An animal of the clade (traditionally class) Aves in the phylum Chordata, characterized by being warm-blooded, having feathers and wings usually capable of flight, having a beaked mouth, and laying eggs.
nighthawknoun	A person whose preference or custom is to remain awake and active during the night and the early morning hours.
hawkish	Supportive of warlike foreign policy; bellicose; inclined toward military action.
sharknoun	(ichthyology, countable) Any predatory fish of the superorder Selachimorpha, with a cartilaginous skeleton and 5 to 7 gill slits on each side of its head.
baskingnoun	The act of one who basks.
pilgrimnoun	One who travels, especially on a journey to visit sites of religious significance.
peregrinenoun	The peregrine falcon.
jernoun	(linguistics) either of the Proto-Slavic lax vowels /ɪ/ (front jer, ь) and /ʊ/ (back jer, ъ), which in Late Common Slavic were reduced in certain positions to ultrashort vowels [ɪ̆] and [ʊ̆] (weak jers) and then eventually lost.
gyrnoun	Abbreviation of gigayear (“a billion years”). [A billion years: a thousand million years, that is, a thousand thousand thousand years.]
hudsonnoun	(countable) An English surname originating as a patronymic.
hawksnoun	A surname.
mewedverb	(of a cat, especially of a kitten) To meow.
pilgrims	The Pilgrims, also known as the Pilgrim Fathers, were the English settlers who travelled to North America on the ship Mayflower and established the Plymouth Colony in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
raptornoun	A bird of prey.
kestrelnoun	A common kestrel (Falco tinnunculus).
merlinnoun	A small falcon, Falco columbarius, that breeds in northern North America, Europe, and Asia.
gyrfalconnoun	Falco rusticolus, a large bird of prey that breeds on Arctic coasts and islands of North America, Europe and Asia.
sakernoun	A falcon (Falco cherrug) native of Southern Europe and Asia.