sparrowhawk

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So she just set it up and went on telling the actual Sparrowhawk stories.

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A Eurasian sparrowhawk, Accipiter nisus, a small, short-winged European hawk that preys on smaller birds.

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noun

A Eurasian sparrowhawk, Accipiter nisus, a small, short-winged European hawk that preys on smaller birds.

noun

Any of numerous other relatively small birds of Old World species of Accipiter, that prey on smaller birds or otherwise resemble A. nisus.

noun

(falconry) A female such bird, a male being a musket.

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Core meanings and parts of speech for sparrowhawk.

noun

A Eurasian sparrowhawk, Accipiter nisus, a small, short-winged European hawk that preys on smaller birds.

noun

Any of numerous other relatively small birds of Old World species of Accipiter, that prey on smaller birds or otherwise resemble A. nisus.

noun

(falconry) A female such bird, a male being a musket.

noun

Alternative form of sparrow hawk; American kestrel, Falco sparverius, of similar size and habit. [The American kestrel or American sparrowhawk (Falco sparverius), a small falcon found in North and South America that preys on grasshoppers and small animals.]

Example sentences

So she just set it up and went on telling the actual Sparrowhawk stories.

I don't think any of the birds in the header image are actually named after people (loggerhead shrike, Eurasian sparrowhawk, Eurasian tree sparrow, and I'm not good with owls but I think it's a little owl.

Often referred to as flying aircraft carriers, each of the helium-inflated airships carried F9C-2 Curtiss Sparrowhawk biplanes which could be launched and recovered in flight, greatly extending the range over which the Akron and Macon could scout the open ocean for enemy vessels.

Other than the occasional "Sparrowhawk" many of them just didn't stick well or roll off the tongue.

This decision and the conversion is often done with a ton of handwritten rules or grammars (see Kestrel, Google's text normalization system, and the open-source version, cleverly named Sparrowhawk).

Quote examples

Other than the occasional "Sparrowhawk" many of them just didn't stick well or roll off the tongue.

Proper noun examples

This decision and the conversion is often done with a ton of handwritten rules or grammars (see Kestrel, Google's text normalization system, and the open-source version, cleverly named Sparrowhawk).