accipiter gentilis

1. 1.

   large hawk of Eurasia and North America used in falconry

   Synonymsgoshawk

   Broaderhawk

   Part ofAccipiter

Questions about accipiter gentilis

What does accipiter gentilis mean?

accipiter gentilis means "large hawk of Eurasia and North America used in falconry".

What is another word for accipiter gentilis?

Close synonyms include goshawk. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is accipiter gentilis a common word?

accipiter gentilis is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.