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Definition of Falconine
1. Adjective. Relating to or resembling a falcon.
Definition of Falconine
1. a. Like a falcon or hawk; belonging to the Falconidæ
Definition of Falconine
1. Adjective. Of, or relating to falcons. ¹
2. Adjective. Resembling a falcon ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Falconine
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Falconine
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Falconine
Literary usage of Falconine
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Birds of America by John James] [Audubon (1840)
"falconine BIRDS. Bill short, stout, cerate; upper mandible with the tip elongated
and decurved; lower mandible rounded and thin-edged at the end. ..."
2. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences by Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences (1915)
"... but broken in such a way as to render it difficult to say which one. It is
interesting to find a falconine bird •of this size in the Oligocene. ..."
3. A Hand-book to the Birds of Great Britain by Richard Bowdler Sharpe (1896)
"... and enables him to recognise the falconine Kites. ... Of these falconine Kites
perhaps the most interesting is ..."
4. British Song Birds: Being Popular Descriptions and Anecdotes of the by Neville Wood (1836)
"A fresh couple from the flanks immediately renewed the attack upon the centre,
and the con- * The word falconine is here used in a strictly scientific sense ..."
5. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1851)
"... the bill and claws gradually assuming the true falconine character. This was
near the coast, where the sparrow-hawk is rare during the summer, ..."
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