One word listed by Ms. Tieslau-Jewell is accipitrine, meaning ` hawklike. '. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IV No 3] Reference
Now the falcons are dividing lark bunting flocks when powering in for the kill and making low accipitrine attempts on scaled quail. From Wordnik.com. [Offline Chatter] Reference
They halted beneath a half-dead oak, hollow, and disfigured with white tumors, its roots spreading out like accipitrine claws grasping the ground. From Wordnik.com. [The Woodlanders] Reference
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He or she might say accipitrid to indicate membership in the family Accipitridae, but accipitrine in this context would refer only to one of the accipitrid subfamilies -- the Accipitrinae (the "true" hawks and eagles). From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IV No 3] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia — Complete] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series] Reference
Ine adjectives that pertain to, resemble or are characteristic of an animal: accipitrine ` hawklike 'leonine ` lionlike' anguine ` snakelike 'lupine ` wolflike' anserine ` gooselike 'lutrine ` otterlike' aquiline ` eaglelike 'murine ` mouselike' asinine ` asslike 'oscine ` songbirdlike' bovine ` cowlike 'ovine ` sheeplike' canine ` doglike 'passerine ` perching - caprine ` goatlike' songbirdlike 'cervine ` deerlike' pavonine ` peacocklike 'colubrine ` kingsnakelike' piscine ` fishlike 'or ` gartersnakelike' porcine ` piglike or elephantine ` elephantlike '` swinelike' equine ` horselike 'ranine ` froglike' feline ` catlike 'serpentine ` serpentlike' herpestine ` mongooselike 'suilline ` hoglike' hircine ` goatlike, 'especially suine ` swinelike' in strong odor taurine ` bull-like 'or lustfulness ursine ` bearlike' lacertine or lacertilian viperine ` viperlike '. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol III No 3] Reference
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