Associations to the word «Accipitrine»

Wiktionary

ACCIPITRINE, noun. A hawk or a hawk like bird.
ACCIPITRINE, adjective. (ornithology) Like or belonging to the Accipitres; raptorial; hawklike.

Dictionary definition

ACCIPITRINE, adjective. Of or relating to or belonging to the genus Accipiter (or to typical hawks).

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope