noun
bluish-grey North American hawk having a darting flight
• Syn: ↑Cooper's hawk, ↑Accipiter cooperii
• Hypernyms: ↑hawk
• Member Holonyms: ↑Accipiter, ↑genus Accipiter
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noun : any of several hawks (as the sharp-shinned hawk or the Cooper's hawk) having darting erratic flight rather than soaring
Useful english dictionary. 2012.