English-Thai Dictionary

Harpy

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

HARPY

n.[L. harpyia; Gr. to seize or claw. ] 1. In antiquity, the harpies were fabulous winged monsters, having the face of a woman and the body of a vulture, with their feet and fingers armed with sharp claws. They were three in number, Aello, Ocypete, and Celeno. They were sent by Juno to plunder the table of Phineus. They are represented as rapacious and filthy animals.
2. Any rapacious or ravenous animal; an extortioner; a plunderer.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

HARPY

Har "py, n.; pl. Harpies. Etym: [F. harpie, L. harpyia, Gr. Rapacious. ]

 

1. (Gr. Myth. )

 

Defn: A fabulous winged monster, ravenous and filthy, having the face of a woman and the body of a vulture, with long claws, and the face pale with hunger. Some writers mention two, others three. Both table and provisions vanished guite. With sound of harpies' wings and talons heard. Milton.

 

2. One who is rapacious or ravenous; an extortioner. The harpies about all pocket the pool. Goldsmith.

 

3. (Zoöl.) (a ) The European moor buzzard or marsh harrier (Circus æruginosus ). (b ) A large and powerful, double-crested, short-winged American eagle (Thrasaëtus harpyia ). It ranges from Texas to Brazil. Harpy bat (Zoöl.) (a ) An East Indian fruit bat of the genus Harpyia (esp. H. cerphalotes ), having prominent, tubular nostrils. (b ) A small, insectivorous Indian bat (Harpiocephalus harpia ). Harpy fly (Zoöl.), the house fly.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

harpy

har py |ˈhärpē ˈhɑrpi | ▶noun ( pl. harpies ) Greek & Roman Mythology a rapacious monster described as having a woman's head and body and a bird's wings and claws or depicted as a bird of prey with a woman's face. • a grasping, unpleasant woman. ORIGIN late Middle English: from Latin harpyia, from Greek harpuiai ‘snatchers. ’

 

harpy eagle

har py ea gle ▶noun a large crested eagle of tropical rain forests, often preying on monkeys. [Family Accipitridae: Harpia harpyja of South America, the largest eagle, and Harpyopsis novaeguineae of New Guinea. ]

 

Oxford Dictionary

harpy

harpy |ˈhɑːpi | ▶noun ( pl. harpies ) 1 Greek & Roman Mythology a rapacious monster described as having a woman's head and body and a bird's wings and claws or depicted as a bird of prey with a woman's face. 2 a grasping, unpleasant woman: clearly, he had us down as a couple of gold-digging harpies. ORIGIN late Middle English: from Latin harpyia, from Greek harpuiai ‘snatchers ’.

 

harpy eagle

harpy eagle ▶noun a very large crested eagle of tropical rainforests, often preying on monkeys. ●Family Accipitridae: Harpia harpyja of South America, the largest eagle, and Harpyopsis novaeguineae of New Guinea.

 

Duden Dictionary

Harpyie

Har py ie Substantiv, feminin , die |Harp y ie …jə |lateinisch Harpyia < griechisch Hárpyia, eigentlich = Räuberin 1 griechische Mythologie Sturmdämon in Gestalt eines Mädchens mit Vogelflügeln 2 in Süd - und Mittelamerika heimischer, dem Adler ähnlicher, großer Greifvogel