What is another word for talons?

Pronunciation: [tˈalɒnz] (IPA)

Talons, or the sharp claws of birds of prey, can be described in a variety of ways using synonyms. Some alternatives for talons include claws, nails, or pincers. These terms are often used interchangeably, but pincers may refer to those of certain crustaceans or arthropods, while claws and nails are commonly used to describe those of mammals or reptiles. Other synonyms for talons include hooks, spurs, or talipes. These words may imply a more specialized or specific type of talon, such as one used for grasping or piercing. Overall, the diversity and specificity of synonyms for talons reflect the unique functions and characteristics of these appendages in different species.

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Usage examples for Talons

A regular combat now commenced, the hawk fighting with beak and talons, and rising occasionally on his wings.
"Stories of Animal Sagacity"
W.H.G. Kingston
Down pounced the bird of prey and seized one in his talons.
"Stories of Animal Sagacity"
W.H.G. Kingston
My right hand suffered most; I had fallen asleep clasping the loom of the steering oar, and when I awoke my fingers still gripped it, so that, on withdrawing them, they remained curved like talons, and I believed I had lost their use, and even reckoned they would snap off and so set up a mortification, till by much diligent rubbing I grew sensible of a small glow which, increasing, ended in rendering the joints supple.
"The Frozen Pirate"
W. Clark Russell

Famous quotes with Talons

  • If this myth of the harpies were a reality, what of the other legends—the Hydra, the centaurs, the chimera, Medusa, Pan and the satyrs? All those myths of antiquity--behind them did there lie and lurk nightmare realities with slavering fangs and talons steeped in shuddersome evil? Africa, the Dark Continent, land of shadows and horror, of bewitchment and sorcery, into which all evil things had been banished before the growing light of the western world!
    Robert E. Howard
  • The encroachments of Slavery upon our national policy have been like those of a glacier in a Swiss valley. Inch by inch, the huge dragon with his glittering scales and crests of ice coils itself onward, an anachronism of summer, the relic of a bygone world where such monsters swarmed. But it has its limit, the kindlier forces of Nature work against it, and the silent arrows of the sun are still, as of old, fatal to the frosty Python. Geology tells us that such enormous devastators once covered the face of the earth, but the benignant sunlight of heaven touched them, and they faded silently, leaving no trace but here and there the scratches of their talons, and the gnawed boulders scattered where they made their lair. We have entire faith in the benignant influence of Truth, the sunlight of the moral world, and believe that slavery, like other worn-out systems, will melt gradually before it.
    James Russell Lowell
  • You should feel what it is like to pleasure a falcon. You lock talons with her in the sky and do it while you both are falling like meteors. You would like it; they never complain if you come too fast.
    Christopher Moore (author)
  • It should, it seems to me, be our pleasure and duty to make those people [the Filipinos] free, and let them deal with their own domestic questions in their own way. And so I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land.
    Mark Twain
  • To him life was never monotonous or stale. There was always Pisah, the fish, to be caught in the many streams and the little lakes, and Sabor, with her ferocious cousins to keep one ever on the alert and give zest to every instant that one spent upon the ground. Often they hunted him, and more often he hunted them, but though they never quite reached him with those cruel, sharp claws of theirs, yet there were times when one could scarce have passed a thick leaf between their talons and his smooth hide. Quick was Sabor, the lioness, and quick were Numa and Sheeta, but Tarzan of the Apes was lightning.
    Edgar Rice Burroughs

Related words: bird talons, eagle talons, cat talons, how to tell the difference between bird talons and claws, hawk talons

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