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# talon

«talon» in Mova's school dictionary: **a long, sharp, curved claw on the foot of a bird of prey…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a talon, talons)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A talon is a long, sharp, curved claw on the foot of a bird of prey, like an eagle, owl or hawk. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/talon/#m1)

2) In stories, talons can be any sharp claws or long fingernails that look frightening. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/talon/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons, talons are an adaptation of predators: an owl or eagle grips and kills prey with its talons and tears food with its hooked beak. In stories, a monster or witch might have «talons» to sound scary. Phrases: «sharp talons», «gripped in its talons», «eagle's talons».

### examples

- The eagle grabbed the fish with its talons. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/talon/#x1)
- An owl's talons are very sharp. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/talon/#x2)
- The hawk perched on the falconer's glove, which protected his arm from its talons. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/talon/#x3)
- The dragon's talons scraped across the rock. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/talon/#x4)
- The witch pointed a long, talon-like fingernail at him. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/talon/#x5)
- Ospreys have rough talons to hold slippery fish. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/talon/#x6)
- A hungry Hawk presently spied her, and darting to the spot seized her in his talons. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/talon/#x7)

### note

Plural: «talons». Usually for birds of prey; for cats and dogs say «claws». Say it "TAL-on".

### In the corpora

- [Birds of prey, also called raptors, hunt other animals with sharp eyes, hooked beaks and gripping feet with curved talons.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/34-birds-of-prey-and-owls/0/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «talon» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/talon/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.