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harpullia cupanioides
  • n  fast-growing tree of India and East Indies yielding a wood used especially for building
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harpullia pendula
  • n  Australian tree yielding a variegated tulipwood
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harpy
  • n  a malicious woman with a fierce temper
  • n  (Greek mythology) vicious winged monster; often depicted as a bird with the head of a woman
  • n  any of various fruit bats of the genus Nyctimene distinguished by nostrils drawn out into diverging tubes
  • n  large black-and-white crested eagle of tropical America
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harpy bat
  • n  any of various fruit bats of the genus Nyctimene distinguished by nostrils drawn out into diverging tubes
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harpy eagle
  • n  large black-and-white crested eagle of tropical America
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harrier
  • n  a persistent attacker
  • n  a hound that resembles a foxhound but is smaller; used to hunt rabbits
  • n  hawks that hunt over meadows and marshes and prey on small terrestrial animals
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harrier eagle
  • n  any of numerous large Old World hawks intermediate in some respects between typical hawks and typical eagles
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harriet beecher stowe
  • n  United States writer of a novel about slavery that advanced the abolitionists' cause (1811-1896)
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harriet elizabeth beecher stowe
  • n  United States writer of a novel about slavery that advanced the abolitionists' cause (1811-1896)
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harriet tubman
  • n  United States abolitionist born a slave on a plantation in Maryland and became a famous conductor on the Underground Railroad leading other slaves to freedom in the North (1820-1913)
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harriet wilson
  • n  author of the first novel by an African American that was published in the United States (1808-1870)
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