secretary bird
n.
A large African bird of prey (Sagittarius serpentarius) with long legs, gray and black plumage, and a crest of quills at the back of the head.
[Probably so called after its crest of quills, which reminded 18th-century observers of legal secretaries who stuck their quills into their wigs when not writing with them.]
secretary birdSagittarius serpentarius
- fall on deaf ears
- fall on (or upon)
- fallopian tube
- Fallot's tetralogy
- fall out
- fallout
- fall over
- fall over backward
- fall over backward/backwards
- fall over backwards
- fall over (oneself)
- fall over oneself
- fallow
- fallow deer
- fallowness
- fall prey to
- Fall River
- Falls
- fall short
- fall through
- fall through the cracks
- fall to
- fall to pieces
- Fallujah
- fall upon