accipitrine

1. 1.

   of or relating to or belonging to the genus Accipiter (or to typical hawks)

Questions about accipitrine

What does accipitrine mean?

accipitrine means "of or relating to or belonging to the genus Accipiter (or to typical hawks)".

How many syllables are in accipitrine?

accipitrine has 4 syllables: ac-ci-pi-trine. The stress falls on "ci".

Is accipitrine a common word?

accipitrine 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.