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Gerfalcon

noun
1.
Large and rare Arctic falcon having white and dark color phases.  Synonyms: Falco rusticolus, gyrfalcon.






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"Gerfalcon" Quotes from Famous Books



... then sold everything he had, borrowed the money to pay Lucie's debts, and tried in vain to free himself from that weight, and to get her expelled from the town, but she always returned. She was as implacable towards him as a gerfalcon that is devouring its prey, and as the adventure had got wind, and was even talked about at the soldiers' mess, and as the scandal increased every day, the colonel ...
— The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume II (of 8) • Guy de Maupassant



Words linked to "Gerfalcon" :   genus Falco, falcon, Falco



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