relating to or denoting birds of a family that includes most diurnal birds of prey other than falcons, New World vultures, and the osprey:accipitrine hawks
Family Accipitridae; treated as a subfamily (Accipitrinae) in this sense when the osprey is included in this family
Origin:
mid 19th century: from French, from Latin accipiter 'bird of prey'
accipitrine in other Oxford dictionaries
Definition of accipitrine in the US English dictionary
