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Meanings of harpy in anglès

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guineu

A malicious woman with a fierce temper.

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        harpia
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        harpia

        Large black-and-white crested eagle of tropical America.

              harpia

              Any of various fruit bats of the genus Nyctimene distinguished by nostrils drawn out into diverging tubes.

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                    Examples for "harpy bat"
                    Examples for "harpy bat"
                    1
                    On the University of York's website Irwin said that the species is very difficult to tell apart from other tube-nosed bat species.
                    The South African
                    Usage of harpy in anglès
                    1
                    There was a noise about Queen Bess lacking in her harpy contemporaries.
                    A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago
                    2
                    The harpy-chivvyings of partygirl-papparazzi-fashionistas who kept flattering her away from better longings.
                    Existence
                    3
                    The priestess laughed again; it was the shrill cry of a harpy.
                    Monster Hunter International
                    4
                    She looked like a harpy after a no-holds-barred row with her sisters.
                    The Door Into Summer
                    5
                    If a rifle will kill a harpy, it'll kill a damnthing too.
                    Little Fuzzy
                    6
                    He'd had enough of that damn harpy; he wanted a new life.
                    The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair
                    7
                    Nevertheless, no evidence of a harpy language has yet been found.
                    The Resurrectionist: The Lost Work of Dr. Spencer Black
                    8
                    The harpy's reproductive system is similar to that of a bird.
                    The Resurrectionist: The Lost Work of Dr. Spencer Black
                    9
                    The peace between the Austrian harpy and the frogs is made.
                    The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4
                    10
                    You flea-bitten harpy, have not you had enough of me today?
                    Tomato rhapsody: a fable of love, lust and forbidden fruit
                    11
                    But in a second the Siren was transformed into a harpy.
                    The Chauffeur and the Chaperon
                    12
                    But the lion was off, having pushed the first harpy aside somewhat rudely.
                    Miss Mackenzie
                    13
                    The impression I got from their captain-whatwas that harpy's name-
                    Cauldron of Ghosts
                    14
                    She didn't know why she was behaving like such a harpy.
                    Beauty and the feast
                    15
                    I swayed as the ceiling, harpy and all, began to rotate above me.
                    The Oracle Glass
                    16
                    One of them is a harpy, the other, all she does is sleep.
                    American Gods
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                    Harpy through the time
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