sparrowhawk

雀鹰

发音

US

词形变化

sparrowhawks 复数 sparrowhawks

别名

sparrow hawk sparrow-hawk sparhawk

释义与例句

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  1. 1.

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

  2. 2.

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

    A female such bird, a male being a musket.

    体育
  3. 3.

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

  4. 4.

    Alternative form of sparrow hawk; American kestrel, Falco sparverius, of similar size and habit.

词汇关系

名词

同义词 2

American kestrel kestrel

上位词 2

hawk falcon

相关短语

chestnut-flanked sparrowhawk Eurasian sparrowhawk 雀鹰 Levant sparrowhawk Japanese sparrowhawk Ovambo sparrowhawk rufous-breasted sparrowhawk rufous-chested sparrowhawk

词源

From Middle English sparhauk, sperhauk, from Old English spearhafoc, spearhabuc (“sparrow-hawk”), from Proto-West Germanic *sparwahabuk, from Proto-Germanic *sparwahabukaz, equivalent to sparrow + hawk. Cognate with Danish spurvehøg (“sparrowhawk”), Swedish sparvhök (“sparrowhawk”), Icelandic sparrhaukur (“sparrowhawk”).

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