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Definition of Hawklike
1. resembling a hawk (a bird of prey) [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hawklike
Literary usage of Hawklike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Birds of Maine: With Key to and Description of the Various Species Known by Ora Willis Knight (1908)
"... their general appearance when perching and other characters are quite hawklike.
They nest in various evergreen trees, making a nest of sticks, ..."
2. Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America: With Introductory Chapters on by Frank Michler Chapman (1912)
"He is so well known as a bird of hawklike, sanguinary character that most students
are astonished when they find out that toward springtime he develops into ..."
3. Bird-life: A Guide to the Study of Our Common Birds by Frank Michler Chapman (1901)
"Birds with sharply pointed and frequently hooked or hawklike bills; ...
Bill hawklike, the tip of the upper mandible generally much enlarged ; nostrils ..."
4. A Source Book of Biological Nature-study by Elliot Rowland Downing (1919)
"... (shrike family) have hawklike bills and somewhat hawklike habits. They hang
up surplus provisions, insects, and small rodents on thorns or even on barbs ..."
5. Corrie Who? by Maximilian Foster (1908)
"Raising his hand, he tapped softly, waited a moment with his hawklike face fixed
... As his eyes fell on her, his hawklike face displayed for an instant the ..."
6. Our Ancestors: Scots, Piets, & Cymry, and what Their Traditions Tell Us by Robert Craig Maclagan (1913)
"The latter is scarcely characteristic of any crow, and hawklike can only be
justified from its predatory character and solitary action and from its living ..."
7. Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America: With Keys to the Species, and by Frank Michler Chapman (1895)
"A. Bill generally sharply pointed, without a hawklike hook at its tip. a. ... B.
Bill with a hawklike hook at the tip. a. Lores bare. a1. Bill over 12-00, ..."
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