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harpy
harpy is a 5-letter English word with 8 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A fabulous winged monster, ravenous and filthy, having the face of a woman and the body of a vulture, with long claws, and the face pale with hunger. Some writers mention two, others three. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 12 · 8 senses
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- 1noun
A fabulous winged monster, ravenous and filthy, having the face of a woman and the body of a vulture, with long claws, and the face pale with hunger. Some writers mention two, others three.
- 2noun
One who is rapacious or ravenous; an extortioner.
- 3noun
The European moor buzzard or marsh harrier (Circus aeruginosus).
- 4noun
A large and powerful, double-crested, short-winged American eagle (Thrasaetus harpyia). It ranges from Texas to Brazil.
- 5noun
large black-and-white crested eagle of tropical America
- 6noun
any of various fruit bats of the genus Nyctimene distinguished by nostrils drawn out into diverging tubes
- 7noun
(Greek mythology) vicious winged monster; often depicted as a bird with the head of a woman
- 8noun
a malicious woman with a fierce temper
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