Falcon
WordNet
noun
(1) Diurnal birds of prey having long pointed powerful wings adapted for swift flight
verb
(2) Hunt with falcons
"The tribes like to falcon in the desert"
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Etymology
c. 1250, from Old French falcun, falcon, from Late Latin falco, -onis, from West Germanic *falkōn (cf. Middle Dutch valke, Old High German falco), from Indo-European *pol-ĝ, variant of *pol-k^; cf. Lithuanian pálšas 'pale', Latv pàlss 'id'.
Noun
- Any bird of the genus Falco, all of them birds of prey.
Related terms
- Capra falconeri
- falconer
- falconet
- falcon-gentil, falcon-gentle
- falconine
- falconry
- gerfalcon, gyrfalcon
- peregrine falcon