Peregrine Synonyms

pĕrə-grĭn, -grēn
A widely distributed falcon formerly used in falconry
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. peregrine-falcon
  2. falco-peregrinus
Migratory
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. mobile
  2. nomadic
  3. roving
  4. wandering

Words Related to Peregrine

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. sparrowhawk
  2. lanner
  3. falcon
  4. red-footed
  5. Aplomado
  6. sparrowhawks
  7. Black-mantled

Peregrine Sentence Examples

  • His name was Peregrine White.

  • On the 19th of June, on the resignation of Lord Clifford, he was appointed lord treasurer and made Baron Osborne of Kiveton and Viscount Latimer in the peerage of England, while on the 27th of June 1674 he was created earl of Danby, when he surrendered his Scottish peerage of Osborne to his second son Peregrine Osborne.

  • In 1820 he was appointed by Sir Peregrine Maitland a member of the legislative council in order that the governor might have a confidential medium through whom to make communication to the council.

  • In the Civil War of the 17th century, Lindsey for the most part declared for the king, and the Royalist cause was warmly supported by the earl of Lindsey, Viscount Newark, Sir Peregrine Bertie and the families of Dymoke, Heneage and Thorold.

  • The avifauna includes the federally endangered southern bald eagle Haliaeetus leucocephalus and peregrine falcon Falco peregrinus which successfully breeds here.

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