GERFALCON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gerfalcon mean? 

• GERFALCON (noun)
  The noun GERFALCON has 1 sense:

1. large and rare Arctic falcon having white and dark color phases

  Familiarity information: GERFALCON used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GERFALCON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Large and rare Arctic falcon having white and dark color phases

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Falco rusticolus; gerfalcon; gyrfalcon

Hypernyms ("gerfalcon" is a kind of...):

falcon (diurnal birds of prey having long pointed powerful wings adapted for swift flight)

Holonyms ("gerfalcon" is a member of...):

Falco; genus Falco (a genus of Falconidae)

 Context examples 

A few rich settles and bancals, choicely carved and decorated with glazed leather hangings of the sort termed or basane, completed the furniture of the apartment, save that at one side of the dais there stood a lofty perch, upon which a cast of three solemn Prussian gerfalcons sat, hooded and jesseled, as silent and motionless as the royal fowler who stood beside them.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)