accipitrine

“One word listed by Ms. Tieslau-Jewell is accipitrine, meaning ` hawklike. ”

Verbatim: VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IV No 3

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

Offline Chatter

“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

“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

“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

“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

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Rational Review

“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).”

Verbatim: VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IV No 3