Definition of Berghaan

1. a type of eagle [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Berghaan

bergander
berganders
bergapten
bergenia
bergenias
bergenite
bergere
bergeres
bergeret
bergerets
bergerette
bergerettes
bergfall
bergfalls
bergh
berghaan (current term)
berghaans
bergie
bergies
bergmaster
bergmasters
bergmeal
bergmehl
bergmehls
bergomask
bergomasks
bergs
bergschrund
bergschrunds
bergshrund

Literary usage of Berghaan

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Narrative of a Visit to the Mauritius and South Africa by James Backhouse (1844)
"... is founded in en Three species of Eagle occur in South Africa, Aquila co nata, the Crowned Eagle, A. bellicosa, the Chok, and A. t turino, the berghaan ..."

2. Cape Colony for the Settler: An Account of Its Urban and Rural Industries by Alfred Richard Edward Burton (1903)
"... berghaan, the aas-vogel, and the secretary bird may be selected as representatives of the raptorial birds. Pelicans and flamingoes haunt the vleis and ..."

3. Kloof and Karroo: Sport, Legend and Natural History in Cape Colony, with a by Henry Anderson Bryden (1889)
"We know him at once for a berghaan (cock of the mountain) or dassie-vanger (coney-eater). He is evidently watching some object below—probably the antelopes ..."

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