osprey : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: osprey	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for osprey
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
osprey n large harmless hawk found worldwide that feeds on fish and builds a bulky nest often occupied for years Synonym(s): osprey, fish hawk, fish eagle, sea eagle, Pandion haliaetus
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Osprey \Os"prey\, Ospray \Os"pray\, n. [Through OF. fr. L. ossifraga (orig., the bone breaker); prob. influenced by oripelargus (mountain stork, a kind of eagle, Gr. [?]); cf. OF. orpres, and F. orfraie. See {Ossifrage}.] (Zo[94]l.) The fishhawk.
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Osprey, FL (CDP, FIPS 53425) Location: 27.19150 N, 82.49076 W Population (1990): 2597 (1517 housing units) Area: 5.3 sq km (land), 1.6 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 34229
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Osprey Heb. 'ozniyyah, an unclean bird according to the Mosaic law (Lev. 11:13; Deut. 14:12); the fish-eating eagle (Pandion haliaetus); one of the lesser eagles. But the Hebrew word may be taken to denote the short-toed eagle (Circaetus gallicus of Southern Europe), one of the most abundant of the eagle tribe found in Palestine.