e/Illegal eagle

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has glosseng: The expression illegal eagle arose when someone in the USA was asked to make a mould for a coin with "an eagle" on it, intended to be understood as the Bald Eagle Haliaetus leucocephalus; but he looked at the wrong entry in a book about eagles and on the coin mould depicted the Golden Eagle Aquila chrysaetos.
lexicalizationeng: Illegal Eagle
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