noun
- A malicious woman with a fierce temper.
- Greek mythology. ( vicious winged monster; often depicted as a bird with the head of a woman)
- Any of various fruit bats of the genus Nyctimene distinguished by nostrils drawn out into diverging tubes.
- synonyms: harpy bat, tube-nosed bat, tube-nosed fruit bat
- Large black-and-white crested eagle of tropical America.
- synonyms: harpy eagle, Harpia harpyja
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