Usually means: Claw of a bird, predatory.
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We found 42 dictionaries that define the word talon:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. talon: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. talon: Merriam-Webster
  3. talon: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. talon: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. talon: Collins English Dictionary
  6. talon: Vocabulary.com
  7. Talon, talon: Wordnik
  8. talon: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Talon, talon: Wiktionary
  10. talon: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. talon: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. talon: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. talon: Dictionary.com
  14. talon: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. talon: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. TALON (database), TALON, Talon (DC Comics), Talon (Marvel Comics), Talon (actor), Talon (anatomy), Talon (bearer bond), Talon (cards), Talon (comics), Talon (disambiguation), Talon (playing cards), Talon (robot), Talon (roller coaster), Talon: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Talon: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. talon: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. talon: Rhymezone
  20. talon, talon (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. talon: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. talon: FreeDictionary.org
  23. talon: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. talon: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. talon: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)
  3. Natural Magick (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. talon: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. talon: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. TALON: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bird On! (No longer online)
  2. talon: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. talon: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Talon: A Few Falconry Terms

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Locksmith Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms: Joint Acronyms and Abbreviations (No longer online)

(Note: See taloned as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A sharp, hooked claw of a bird of prey or other predatory animal.
noun:  (zoology) One of certain small prominences on the hind part of the face of an elephant's tooth.
noun:  (architecture) A kind of moulding, concave at the bottom and convex at the top; an ogee. (When the concave part is at the top, it is called an inverted talon.)
noun:  The shoulder of the bolt of a lock on which the key acts to shoot the bolt.
noun:  (card games) The remaining stock of undealt cards.
noun:  (finance, historical) A document that could be detached and presented in exchange for a block of further coupons on a bond, when the original block had been used up.
noun:  A surname transferred from the nickname.
noun:  A male given name from English of modern usage.

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