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Definition of Taloned
1. Adjective. (of predatory animals) armed with claws or talons.
Definition of Taloned
1. Adjective. (of a claw or nail) hooked, like a talon ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Taloned
1. talon [adj] - See also: talon
Lexicographical Neighbors of Taloned
Literary usage of Taloned
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, George Walter Prothero, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle (1903)
"Michael the chief be shielding thee From the evil dog and from the fox, Prom the
wolf and from the sly bear, And from the taloned birds of destructive bills ..."
2. Carmina Gadelica: Hymns and Incantations with Illustrative Notes on Words by Alexander Carmichael, James Carmichael Watson, Angus Matheson (1900)
"... the wolf and from the sly bear, And from the taloned birds of destructive
bills, From the taloned birds of hooked bills. ..."
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