Definition of "fishhawk" [fish•hawk]

• The osprey. (noun)

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• "The magnificent fishhawk (Halietus vocifer) sits on the top of a mangrove-tree, digesting his morning meal of fresh fish, and is clearly unwilling to stir until the imminence of the danger compels him at last to spread his great wings for flight."
• "And that makes me think now it must have been some fishhawk screaming."
• "It was a swishing, swooping, swoshing noise, and who should fly down out of the sky but that good, kind fishhawk, who once carried Billie and"