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Definition of Accipitrine
1. Adjective. Of or relating to or belonging to the genus Accipiter (or to typical hawks).
Definition of Accipitrine
1. a. Like or belonging to the Accipitres; raptorial; hawklike.
Definition of Accipitrine
1. Noun. A hawk or a hawk like bird. ¹
2. Adjective. (context: zoology ornithology) Like or belonging to the Accipitres; raptorial; hawklike. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Accipitrine
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Accipitrine
Literary usage of Accipitrine
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Birds by Eugene William Oates, William Thomas Blanford (1895)
"accipitrine birds may be thus divided into three families :— a. ... The Osprey
differs from all other accipitrine birds in having the outer toe reversible, ..."
2. A Hand-book to the Birds of Great Britain by Richard Bowdler Sharpe (1896)
"Of the general mass of accipitrine Birds, which have only a slight membrane
connecting the outer and middle toes at the base, we have four Sub-families ..."
3. American Ornithology: Or The Natural History of the Birds of the United States by Alexander Wilson, Charles Lucian Bonaparte, Robert Jameson, George Ord, William Maxwell Hetherington (1831)
"We therefore find several eminent naturalists classing this genus of birds with
the accipitrine, others with the pies. Like the voL. II. ..."
4. A Hand-book to the Birds of Great Britain by Richard Bowdler Sharpe (1897)
"In its mode of capturing prey the Great Skua is almost accipitrine in its habits,
and lives chiefly upon the toil of the smaller Gulls, which it follows ..."
5. The Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by John Timbs (1840)
"... Mr. Owen finds the Hunterian specimen to bear the greatest number of
correspondencies to the skeletons of the accipitrine species, and closest with the ..."
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