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Harpy Common

Harpy has 5 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

a malicious woman with a fierce temper

2

(Greek mythology) vicious winged monster; often depicted as a bird with the head of a woman

3

any of various fruit bats of the genus Nyctimene distinguished by nostrils drawn out into diverging tubes

4

large black-and-white crested eagle of tropical America

5

A mythological creature generally depicted as a bird-of-prey with the head of maiden, a face pale with hunger and long claws on hers hands personifying the destructive power of storm winds.

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Broader Terms (hypernyms)
unpleasant woman mythical monster fruit bat eagle
Rhyming Words
carpy derpy burpy twerpy chirpy blurpy slurpy geocarpy myxocarpy amphicarpy heterocarpy parthenocarpy stenospermocarpy
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