[ noun ] bulky greyish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail; of Europe and Greenland <noun.animal>
Ern \Ern\, Erne \Erne\, n. [AS. earn eagle; akin to D. arend, OHG. aro, G. aar, Icel., Sw., & Dan. ["o]rn, Goth. ara, and to Gr. ? bird. [root]11. Cf. {Ornithology}.] (Zo["o]l.) A sea eagle, esp. the European white-tailed sea eagle ({Hali[ae]etus albicilla}).