american eagle

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   a large eagle of North America that has a white head and dark wings and body

   Synonymsbald eagleHaliaeetus leucocephalus

   Broadereagle

   Part ofHaliaeetus

Questions about american eagle

What does american eagle mean?

american eagle means "a large eagle of North America that has a white head and dark wings and body".

What is another word for american eagle?

Close synonyms include bald eagle, Haliaeetus leucocephalus. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is american eagle a common word?

american eagle is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.