eaglehawk

See also: eagle-hawk

English

Alternative forms

• eagle-hawk

Etymology

From eagle +‎ hawk.

Noun

eaglehawk (plural eaglehawks)

1. (Australia) Any large bird of prey, especially the wedge-tailed eagle, Aquila audax.
   • 1934, Henry G. Lamond, An Aviary On The Plains, page 128:

     As they turn a wedge-tail and black body shows. They are eaglehawks.

   • 2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo, published 2012, page 412:

     We needed to hear the birds chirping, the eaglehawk crying out something from the thermals high above, but the eery silence lingered on.

Synonyms

• wedge-tailed eagle
• wedgetail

Translations

a large Australian eagle

• Bandjalang: mibayn
• Darkinjung: mullian
• Dharug: mulyan
• Esperanto: kojnvosta aglo
• Finnish: kiilapyrstökotka (fi)
• French: uraète (fr) m
• Gamilaraay: maliyan
• Guugu Yimidhirr: gudhal
• Hungarian: ékfarkú sas (hu)
• Irish: iolar dingearrach m
• Japanese: 尾長犬鷲 (オナガイヌワシ, onagainuwashi)
• Ngarrindjeri: peewingie
• Ngiyambaa: maliyan
• Nyungar: waalitj
• Russian: клинохво́стый орёл m (klinoxvóstyj orjól)
• Swedish: kilstjärtsörn (sv) c
• Tiwi: kutulakini, yirrimiruwu, yimpirnika
• Wiradjuri: mullian

Anagrams

• hawk-eagle