(a.) Like or belonging to the Accipitres; raptorial; hawklike.
Example Sentences:
(1) A standard radiographic anatomy of the skulls of three genera of birds (Psittacines, Accipitrines, Passerines) is worked out and illustrated by drawings.
Raptorial
Definition:
(a.) Rapacious; living upon prey; -- said especially of certain birds.
(a.) Adapted for seizing prey; -- said of the legs, claws, etc., of insects, birds, and other animals.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the Raptores. See Illust. (f) of Aves.
Example Sentences:
(1) The sarcocyst produced in response to S. rauschorum is unlike those from many species of Sarcocystis, which have complex walls that change markedly as the sarcocysts mature; however, its simple appearance is similar to other species that have rodents as intermediate hosts and raptorial birds as definitive hosts.
(2) Patterns of reproductive failure in declining populations of several European and North American raptorial species were duplicated experimentally with captive American sparrow hawks Falco sparvcrius that were given a diet containing two commonly used organochlorine insecticides.
(3) Catastrophic declines of three raptorial species in the United States have been accompanied by decreases in eggshell thickness that began in 1947, have amounted to 19 percent or more, and were identical to phenomena reported in Britain.
(4) The propodus (C2) and the merus (C3) of the raptorial appendage are the last elements to become rigid.
(5) The plasma glucose levels obtained for the raptorial birds in this study were considerably higher than those found for the chickens.