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harpy | x |

As a noun harpy

is a fabulous winged monster, ravenous and filthy, having the face of a woman and the body of a vulture.

As a letter x is

the twenty-fourth letter of the.

As a symbol x is

voiceless velar fricative.

harpy

English

(wikipedia harpy)

Noun

(harpies)
  • A fabulous winged monster, ravenous and filthy, having the face of a woman and the body of a vulture.
  • * Milton
    • Both table and provisions vanished quite,
    With sound of harpies' wings and talons heard.
  • A shrewish woman.
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=1927 , year_published=2008 , edition=HTML , editor= , author=Edgar Rice Burrows , title=The Outlaw of Torn , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=The Gutenberg Project , isbn= , page= , passage=But her most subtle wiles proved ineffectual in ridding her, even for a moment, of her harpy jailer }}
  • One who is rapacious or ravenous; an extortioner.
  • * Goldsmith
    • The harpies about all pocket the pool.
  • The European moor buzzard or marsh harrier (Circus aeruginosus ).
  • A large and powerful double-crested, short-winged American eagle (Thrasaetus harpyia ).

    • Derived terms

    * harpy bat * harpy fly

    See also

    * harridan

    x

    Translingual

    {{Basic Latin character info, previous=W, next=Y, image= (wikipedia X)

    Etymology 1

    Letter

  • The twenty-fourth letter of the .
    • See also
    (Latn-script)

    Cardinal number

    (mul-number)
  • The number 10.

    • Symbol

    (mul-symbol)
  • A symbol of the IPA, representing a voiceless uvular fricative.
  • strike

    • Etymology 2

    Possibly from skull and crossbones

    Symbol

    (mul-symbol)
    • Derived terms
    * XXX

    See also

    {{Letter , page=X , NATO=X-ray , Morse=–··– , Character=X , Braille=? }} Image:Latin X.png, Capital and lowercase versions of X , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter X.png, Uppercase and lowercase X in Fraktur Roman numerals ----