Other forms: peregrines
A peregrine is a fast falcon that hunts by stooping from a height. A peregrine falcon, the peregrine stooped, nesting peregrines.
In a stoop it is the fastest animal alive, recorded at over three hundred kilometres an hour. Nearly wiped out by pesticides in the twentieth century, it now nests on cathedrals and office towers in city centres.
1nounperegrineA fast falcon that hunts by stooping from a height.
“A peregrine dived from the cliff and struck a pigeon in mid-air.”
peregrine is a bird.
Latin peregrinus means foreign or travelling; pilgrim is a doublet of the same word.
Latin
peregrīnus — foreign
Old French
peregrin
Middle English
peregrin
English, today
peregrine
From Middle English peregrin, borrowed from Old French peregrin, from Latin peregrīnus (“foreign”). a doublet of pilgrim.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA