Noun:

கொன்று இரை தின்னும் (கழுகு போன்ற) பறவையின் கூர் நகம்,

talons's Usage Examples:

  As he watched, the Ully-demon transformed into its natural form, a creature of wings, talons, and teeth longer than Toby's fingers.

Memon slashed Rissa's arm with his demon's talons, and the demon within her rippled her body as it moved to avoid the madman.

lion's paws and eagle's talons.

The Sparrow Hawk flew dispassionately to nearby cover, grasping its tiny victim in powerful talons.

The middle toe is greatly elongated, and the hinder one but slightly developed, while the talons of all the toes are comparatively straight and blunt, and are thus of little use as organs of prehension.

They had fierce eyes and sharp talons and beaks, and the children hoped none of them would venture into the cavern.

The phœbe had already come once more and looked in at my door and window, to see if my house was cavern-like enough for her, sustaining herself on humming wings with clinched talons, as if she held by the air, while she surveyed the premises.

James John Garth Wilkinson >>He rides on the Garuda, half man and half bird, having the head, wings, beak and talons of an eagle, and human body and limbs, its face being white, its wings red and its body golden.

A cursory inspection of the bird, which is not unfrequently brought alive to Europe, its size, and its enormous bill and talons, at once suggest the vast powers of destruction imputed to it, and are enough to account for the stories told of its ravages on mammals - sloths, fawns, peccaries and spidermonkeys.

They have sharp talons (claws) with which they catch their prey.

The NPL low drift etalon has extremely low overshoot and settles in a fraction of the time of conventional etalons.

Within moments, the gloom which surrounded everyone was filled with scaly wings, clawing talons, biting fangs, and foul stenches.

Synonyms:

bird"s foot, claw,

Antonyms:

heterodactyl foot, zygodactyl foot,