early purple orchid
- n Eurasian orchid with showy pink or purple flowers in a loose spike
eagerness
- n a positive feeling of wanting to push ahead with something
- n prompt willingness
they showed no eagerness to spread the gospel
eagle
- n any of various large keen-sighted diurnal birds of prey noted for their broad wings and strong soaring flight
- n (golf) a score of two strokes under par on a hole
- n a former gold coin in the United States worth 10 dollars
- n an emblem representing power
the Roman eagle - v shoot two strokes under par
She eagled the hole - v shoot in two strokes under par
eagle ray
- n powerful free-swimming tropical ray noted for `soaring' by flapping winglike fins; usually harmless but has venomous tissue near base of the tail as in stingrays