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Definition of Harpia
1. Noun. A genus of Accipitridae.
Generic synonyms: Bird Genus
Group relationships: Accipitridae, Family Accipitridae
Member holonyms: Harpia Harpyja, Harpy, Harpy Eagle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Harpia
Literary usage of Harpia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Robert Armitage Sterndale (1884)
"... harpia. are correspondingly muscular and adapted to the food of the animal,
which consists of hard-shelled beetles, the crushed cases of which have been ..."
2. Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal by Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal (1873)
"Compared with M. cyclotis, the skull of S. harpia is much shortened ...
This shortness of the muzzle in S. harpia diminishes the length of the tooth-row and ..."
3. Monograph of the Asiatic Chiroptera: And Catalogue of the Species of Bats in by Indian Museum, George Edward Dobson (1876)
"In H. harpia the skull is proportionately more swollen and more elevated between
the centres of the zygomatic arches than in H. cyclotis, and the sagittal ..."
4. Report of the Annual Meeting (1880)
"Nostrils as in H. harpia. Wing-membrane extending to the middle of the first
phalanx of the first toe. Extremity of the tail projecting 0'15 inch beyond the ..."
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