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accipitrine

Syllabification: (ac·cip·i·trine)

Pronunciation: /akˈsipitrin, -ˌtrīn/

Definition of accipitrine

adjective

[attributive] Ornithology

of or relating to birds of a family that includes most diurnal birds of prey other than falcons, New World vultures, and the osprey.
- Family Accipitridae; treated as a subfamily (Accipitrinae) in this sense when the osprey is included in this family