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sparrowhawks

sparrowhawks is the plural of sparrowhawk.

Meaning of sparrowhawk

Noun

sparrowhawk (plural sparrowhawks)

  1. A Eurasian sparrowhawk, Accipiter nisus, a small, short-winged European hawk that preys on smaller birds.
    1. A female such bird, a male being a musket.
  2. Any of numerous other relatively small birds of Old World species of Accipiter, that prey on smaller birds or otherwise resemble A. nisus.

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Questions about sparrowhawks

What is sparrowhawks the plural of?
Sparrowhawks is the plural of sparrowhawk.

Words near sparrowhawks in the dictionary

  1. sparrowdom
  2. sparrowfart
  3. sparrowfarts
  4. sparrowgrass
  5. sparrowhawk
  6. sparrowhawks
  7. sparrowish
  8. sparrowless
  9. sparrowlike
  10. sparrowling
  11. sparrowlings

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