icelandic raven
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.15 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A subspecies of the common raven, Corvus corax varius (including the extinct colour morph leucophaeus), native to Iceland and the Faroe Islands.
Example Sentences
- "The Icelandic raven flits around us, and runs among the stones in a bold contemptuous manner, flinging us a disdainful croak when we pelt it."
- "Sometimes a black flag flickered for a moment above one of the distant bastions ; it was the wing of a raven—the great Icelandic raven that kills and devours the lambs."
- "For it was and still is my belief that the bezoar must be much more potent in the Icelandic raven than in its namesake elsewhere, on account of its affinity with that king of fools, Odin, and his heathen tribe here in the north of the world…"