harfangn.
/ˈhɑːfaŋ/ The Great Snowy Owl.
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harfang1774
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1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth V. 141 The Harfang, or Great Hudson's Bay Owl of Edwards..the largest of all the nocturnal tribe.
1847 W. B. Carpenter Zool.: Systematic Acct. I. §382 The Harfang or Great Snowy Owl..is found in very high northern latitudes, of both the Old and New World.
1884 N.Y. Herald 27 Oct. 5/2 It was I who killed the harphang.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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n.1774- non-indigenous
- non-individual
- non-indo-european
- non-inductive
- non-industrial
- non-industrialized
- non-infallibilist
- non-infectious
- non-infective
- non-inferential
- non-inferentially
- non-inflammability
- non-inflammable
- non-inflammatory
- non-inflected
- non-inflectional
- non-influence
- non-information
- non-nitrogenized
- non-nitrogenous
- non-normal
- non-normality
- non-normally
- non-novel
- non-noxious