accipiter nisus

1. 1.

   small hawk of Eurasia and northern Africa

   Synonymssparrow hawk

   Broaderhawk

   Part ofAccipiter

Questions about accipiter nisus

What does accipiter nisus mean?

accipiter nisus means "small hawk of Eurasia and northern Africa".

What is another word for accipiter nisus?

Close synonyms include sparrow hawk. 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 nisus a common word?

accipiter nisus 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.