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Noun harpy has 4 senses
- vixen, harpy, hellcat - a malicious fierce-tempered woman
--1 is a kind of unpleasant woman, disagreeable woman
- Harpy - (Greek mythology) vicious winged monster; often depicted as a bird with the head of a woman
--2 is a kind of mythical monster, mythical creature
- harpy, harpy bat, tube-nosed bat, tube-nosed fruit bat - any of various fruit bats of the genus Nyctimene distinguished by nostrils drawn out into diverging tubes
--3 is a kind of fruit bat, megabat
--3 is a member of Nyctimene, genus Nyctimene
- harpy, harpy eagle, Harpia harpyja - large black-and-white crested eagle of tropical America
--4 is a kind of eagle, bird of Jove
--4 is a member of Harpia, genus Harpia
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