Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

haast's eagle

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: haast's ea-gle
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An extinct giant eagle of New Zealand, †Hieraaetus moorei, which preyed on moas.

Example Sentences

"Haast's eagle lived on the island undisturbed until people arrived and started eating all the moas they could find."
"The moas were bigger than modern ostriches, so the fact that Haast's eagle was able to kill them (hitting them from the side and taking them down that way) is even more impressive."
"To work out how the Haast’s eagle (Hieraaetus moorei) — which lived in New Zealand and weighed up to 15 kilograms — fed, Anneke van Heteren at the Bavarian State Collection of Zoology in Germany and her colleagues created digital 3D models of specimens."

Etymology

Named after New Zealand explorer and geologist Julius von Haast, who described it scientifically in 1871.

Inflected Forms

Haast's eagles (plural)

Questions

What does haast's eagle mean?: An extinct giant eagle of New Zealand, †Hieraaetus moorei, which preyed on moas.
Where does haast's eagle come from?: Named after New Zealand explorer and geologist Julius von Haast, who described it scientifically in 1871.

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