harpy

harpy has 8 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 5.

Definitions

• n.. 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.
• n.. One who is rapacious or ravenous; an extortioner.
• n.. The European moor buzzard or marsh harrier (Circus aeruginosus).
• n.. A large and powerful, double-crested, short-winged American eagle (Thrasaetus harpyia). It ranges from Texas to Brazil.
• n.. large black-and-white crested eagle of tropical America
• n.. any of various fruit bats of the genus Nyctimene distinguished by nostrils drawn out into diverging tubes
• n.. (Greek mythology) vicious winged monster; often depicted as a bird with the head of a woman
• n.. a malicious woman with a fierce temper