Re: RE: "raptor" definition

[rowe@lepomis.psych.upenn.edu (Mickey Rowe)]

What does "raptor" mean?  That depends on the language you are
speaking when you utter it.  In English, raptor does indeed mean "bird
of prey".  The following from an on-line dictionary:

American Heritage Electronic Dictionary Copyright 1991 by Houghton
Mifflin Company.  All rights reserved.  Licensed to the University of
Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science.  Distribution
outside of U Penn SEAS strictly forbidden.


[rap-tor]
 (ra_p't@r)

(NOUN).
    A bird of prey.

ETYMOLOGY
    Latin, one who seizes  <  [[rapere]], to seize.

-- 
Mickey Rowe     (rowe@lepomis.psych.upenn.edu)