Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of or pertaining to the Accipitres or raptorial birds, or
  • the hawks proper, of the subfamily Accipitrinæ; hawk-like; rapacious: as, the accipitrine order of birds.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Zoöl.) Like or belonging to the Accipitres; raptorial; hawklike.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A hawk or a hawk like bird.
  • adjective zoology, ornithology Like or belonging to the Accipitres; raptorial; hawklike.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective of or relating to or belonging to the genus Accipiter (or to typical hawks)

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Examples

  • One word listed by Ms. Tieslau-Jewell is accipitrine, meaning ` hawklike. '

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IV No 3 1977

  • They halted beneath a half-dead oak, hollow, and disfigured with white tumors, its roots spreading out like accipitrine claws grasping the ground.

    The Woodlanders 2006

  • Now the falcons are dividing lark bunting flocks when powering in for the kill and making low accipitrine attempts on scaled quail.

    Offline Chatter 2006

  • His face was thin, his nose somewhat accipitrine, casting a broad shadow; his mouth rather wide, well formed and well closed, carrying a question and an assertion in its finely finished curves; the lower lip a little prominent, the chin shapely and firm, as becomes the corner-stone of the countenance.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson Holmes, Oliver W 1891

  • They halted beneath a half-dead oak, hollow, and disfigured with white tumors, its roots spreading out like accipitrine claws grasping the ground.

    The Woodlanders Thomas Hardy 1884

  • The evolutional meaning of the deep-set Western eye, protruding brow, accipitrine nose, ponderous jaw -- symbols of aggressive force and habit -- was revealed to the gentler race by the same sort of intuition through which a tame animal immediately comprehends the dangerous nature of the first predatory enemy which it sees.

    Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series Lafcadio Hearn 1877

  • His face was thin, his nose somewhat accipitrine, casting a broad shadow; his mouth rather wide, well formed and well closed, carrying a question and an assertion in its finely finished curves; the lower lip a little prominent, the chin shapely and firm, as becomes the corner-stone of the countenance.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

  • The most splendid pigeon, perhaps, that the world produces, and the satin bird, with its lovely eye, feed there upon the berries of the ficus (wild fig,) and other trees: and a numerous tribe of the accipitrine class soar over its dense and spacious forests.

    Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia — Volume I Charles Sturt 1832

  • The most splendid pigeon, perhaps, that the world produces, and the satin bird, with its lovely eye, feed there upon the berries of the ficus (wild fig,) and other trees: and a numerous tribe of the accipitrine class soar over its dense and spacious forests.

    Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia — Complete Charles Sturt 1832

  • Subaquatic to pam american power conversion, educated figs weekend, the serologist is indignantly bright plastique that accipitrine resonance tideland has daphne.

    Rational Review 2009

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