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Definition: Accipitridae |
AccipitridaeNoun1. Hawks; Old World vultures; kites; harriers; eagles. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Food & Agriculture | A large family of carnivorous birds of the order Falconiformes, including the true hawks and goshawks. Source: European Union. (references) |
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The Accipitridae is one of the two main families within the order Falconiformes (the diurnal birds of prey). Many well-known birds like hawks, eagles, kites, harriers and Old World vultures are included in this group. (Most, but not all, other raptors belong to the Falconidae, or falcon family, which is often raised to the level of an independent order.)
Largely because of the explosive impact of modern molecular biology, the current classification of the Accipitridae is confused, with different authorities placing them in different orders. The Osprey is often placed in a separate family Pandionidae, and the New World vultures are also usually now regarded as separate.
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Synonym: AccipitridaeSynonym: family Accipitridae (n). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: old-world (food & agriculture, biology & biotechnology). |
Crosswords: Accipitridae |
| English words defined with "Accipitridae": Accipiter, Aegypiidae, Aegypius, Aquila ♦ family Accipitridae, family Aegypiidae ♦ genus Accipiter, genus Aegypius, genus Aquila, genus Gyps, genus Haliaeetus, genus Harpia, genus Neophron, Gyps ♦ Haliaeetus, Harpia ♦ kite ♦ Neophron. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Accipitridae": Eagles. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Accipitridae" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Latin (accipitridae, black hawk, chicken hawk, goshawks, harrier, harriers, hawked, hawks, old world, Old World vultures, old-world, redtailed hawk, vulture). |
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 | Bald Eagle soaring through the sky. Scientific name: Haliaeetus leucocephalus. Family: Accipitridae.Credit: Brad Keller. |  | Golden Eagle scavenging on a dead rabbit with other birds waiting until he is finished eating. Scientific name: Aquila chrysaetos. Family: Accipitridae.Credit: Brad Keller. |
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| "Accipitridae" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Accipitridae" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 66.67% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Unclassified Items | 33.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3 | N/A |
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Expression using "Accipitridae": family Accipitridae. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
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accipitridae | 3 |
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| Language | Translations for "Accipitridae"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | oernefugle (goshawks, harriers, hawks, Old World vultures). (various references) | |
Dutch | havikachtigen (goshawks, harriers, hawks, Old World vultures). (various references) | |
French | accipitridés. (various references) | |
German | Habichtartige (goshawks, harriers, hawks, Old World vultures). (various references) | |
Greek | αετίδες (goshawks, harriers, hawks, Old World vultures). (various references) | |
Italian | accipitridi (goshawks, harriers, hawks, Old World vultures). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | accipitridaeay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | accipitrídeos (goshawks, harriers, hawks, Old World vultures). (various references) | |
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| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Accipitridae. (various references) |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-c-d-e-i-i-i-p-r-t" | |
-2 letters: paediatric. | |
-3 letters: acaricide, accipiter, diacritic, epicardia, epicritic, patricide, pediatric, practiced. | |
-4 letters: accredit, apractic, carditic, cricetid, diapiric, picrated, picritic, practice, radicate, raticide. | |
-5 letters: accidia, accidie, adapter, aecidia, airdate, apteria, caprice, cardiac, cardiae, cicadae, deictic, dictier, diptera, icteric, paretic, partied, peracid, peridia, picrate, picrite, pirated, piratic, practic, predict, radiate, readapt, riptide, tiaraed, tiderip, triacid, triadic. | |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- -.-. -.-. .. .--. .. - .-. .. -.. .- . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01100011 01100011 01101001 01110000 01101001 01110100 01110010 01101001 01100100 01100001 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A c c i p i t r i d a e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0063 0063 0069 0070 0069 0074 0072 0069 0064 0061 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)356969758275868475706771 |
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