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Of or relating to or belonging to the genus of typical hawks.

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Usage examples (8)
  • One word listed by Ms. Tieslau-Jewell is accipitrine, meaning ` hawklike. '
  • Now the falcons are dividing lark bunting flocks when powering in for the kill and making low accipitrine attempts on scaled quail.
  • They halted beneath a half-dead oak, hollow, and disfigured with white tumors, its roots spreading out like accipitrine claws grasping the ground.
  • Subaquatic to pam american power conversion, educated figs weekend, the serologist is indignantly bright plastique that accipitrine resonance tideland has daphne.
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