SEA EAGLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sea eagle mean? 

• SEA EAGLE (noun)
  The noun SEA EAGLE has 2 senses:

1. large harmless hawk found worldwide that feeds on fish and builds a bulky nest often occupied for years

2. any of various large eagles that usually feed on fish

  Familiarity information: SEA EAGLE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SEA EAGLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Large harmless hawk found worldwide that feeds on fish and builds a bulky nest often occupied for years

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

fish eagle; fish hawk; osprey; Pandion haliaetus; sea eagle

Hypernyms ("sea eagle" is a kind of...):

hawk (diurnal bird of prey typically having short rounded wings and a long tail)

Holonyms ("sea eagle" is a member of...):

genus Pandion; Pandion (type genus of the Pandionidae)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Any of various large eagles that usually feed on fish

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("sea eagle" is a kind of...):

bird of Jove; eagle (any of various large keen-sighted diurnal birds of prey noted for their broad wings and strong soaring flight)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sea eagle"):

Haliaeetus pelagicus; Kamchatkan sea eagle; Stellar's sea eagle (found on coasts of the northwestern Pacific)

ern; erne; European sea eagle; gray sea eagle; grey sea eagle; Haliatus albicilla; white-tailed sea eagle (bulky greyish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail; of Europe and Greenland)

fishing eagle; Haliaeetus leucorhyphus (of southeast Europe and central Asia)

Holonyms ("sea eagle" is a member of...):

genus Haliaeetus; Haliaeetus (a genus of Accipitridae)

 Context examples 

Once a white-necked sea eagle soared screaming high over the traveller's head, and again a flock of brown bustards popped up from among the bracken, and blundered away in their clumsy fashion, half running, half flying, with strident cry and whirr of wings.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)