harpago-, harpag-; harpacto-, harpact-; harpaxo-, harpax- +

1. One of the family Harpacticidae, tiny copepod crustacea.
2. A tiny crustacean that lives among plankton and is an important food source for many fish. It is native to oceans and lakes. Subclass: Copepoda.

Copepods are minute free-living, freshwater and marine crustaceans (shell-covered); usually having six pairs of limbs on the thorax. Some are abundant in plankton and others parasitic on fish.

One of the order Harpacticoida, very small worm-like copepod crustacea.

A diverse order of typically free-living copepod crustaceans which are mainly epibenthic, burrowing or interstitial forms, occasionally planktonic or parasitic; characterized by the fusion of the inner branch (endopod) of the fifth leg to its base; feeding primarily on algae and a variety of microorganisms. It contains about 3,000 species from both marine and freshwater habitats.

Feeding by preying on other animals; predatory, used especially with reference to insects.

From Greek harpago-, harpag-, meaning “a hook for seizing; a robbery, rape, seizure, plunder”.

A portion of the clasper on the copulatory organ of certain male insects.

A mosquito.

1. A grappling-hook.
2. A grapnel or harpoon.

A harpoon is a long spear-like instrument used in fishing to catch fish or other large aquatic animals such as whales. A harpoon can also be used as a weapon.

A genus of herbs native to southern Africa, including H. procum´bens, the devil's claw, which is used medicinally.

The Haast's Eagle (Harpagornis moorei) was a massive eagle that once lived on the South Island of New Zealand and is now extinct.

After the extinction of the teratorns, the Haast's Eagle was the largest bird of prey in the world.

Teratorns were very large birds of prey that lived in North and South America from the Miocene to the Pleistocene periods. They were close relatives of modern condors.

1. A morbid fear of robbers or thieves or of being attacked by a robber or a thief. 2. Etymologically from Greek, harpazo, harpax, "seize, snatch, plunder, rapacious; robbery".

1. In Greek mythology, one of several loathsome, voracious monsters with the head and trunk of a woman and the tail, wings, and talons of a bird.
2. A greedy, predatory person.
3. A shrewish woman.
4. A malicious, scolding, nagging, fierce-tempered woman; a shrew (a woman of violent temper and speech).
5. Any of various fruit bats of the genus Nyctimene distinguished by nostrils drawn out into diverging tubes; also, harpy bat, tube-nosed bat, tube-nosed fruit bat.
6. A large black-and-white crested eagle of tropical America; also, harpy eagle, Harpia harpyja.