noun
type genus of the Pandionidae
• Syn: ↑genus Pandion
• Hypernyms: ↑bird genus
• Member Holonyms: ↑Pandionidae, ↑family Pandionidae
• Member Meronyms: ↑osprey, ↑fish hawk, ↑fish eagle, ↑sea eagle, ↑Pandion haliaetus
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\\panˈdīˌän\ nounUsage: capitalized
Etymology: New Latin, from Latin, nightingale, from Pandion, a king of Athens in Greek mythology, from Greek Pandiōn
: a genus (coextensive with the family Pandionidae of the suborder Falcones) of fish-eating hawks comprising the ospreys
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Pandion /pan-dīˈon/
noun
The osprey genus
ORIGIN: Gr Pandīōn, father of Procne and Philomela
Useful english dictionary. 2012.