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From Middle English goshauk, from Old English gōshafoc (“goose hawk”), from gōs (“goose”) and hafoc (“hawk”). Compare also Old Norse gáshaukr and Late Middle English gosling. The bird gets its name from the fact that the birds of the species are hawks that were alleged to prey on geese.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɡɒshɔːk/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (Canada) IPA(key): /ˈɡɑshɑk/
- Rhymes: -ɒshɔːk, -ɑshɑk
- Hyphenation: gos‧hawk
Noun
[edit]goshawk (plural goshawks)
- Any of several birds of prey, principally in the genus Accipiter.
- 1820, [Walter Scott], chapter II, in The Abbot. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, page 43:
- But you heed me no more than a goss-hawk minds a yellow yoldring.
Derived terms
[edit]- African goshawk (Accipiter tachiro)
- black goshawk (Accipiter melanoleucus)
- black-mantled goshawk (Accipiter melanochlamys)
- brown goshawk (Accipiter fasciatus)
- chanting goshawk
- chestnut-shouldered goshawk (Erythrotriorchis buergersi)
- Chinese goshawk (Accipiter soloensis)
- crested goshawk (Accipiter trivirgatus)
- dark chanting goshawk (Melierax metabates)
- eastern chanting goshawk (Melierax poliopterus)
- Fiji goshawk
- Frances' goshawk
- Gabar goshawk
- grey-bellied goshawk (Accipiter poliogaster)
- grey goshawk (Accipiter novaehollandiae)
- grey-headed goshawk (Accipiter poliocephalus)
- Henst's goshawk
- Meyer's goshawk
- Moluccan goshawk
- New Britain goshawk
- northern goshawk (Accipiter gentilis)
- pale chanting goshawk (Melierax canorus)
- pied goshawk (Accipiter albogularis)
- red-chested goshawk (Accipiter toussenelii)
- red goshawk (Erythrotriorchis radiatus)
- spot-tailed goshawk (Accipiter trinotatus)
- Sulawesi goshawk
- white-bellied goshawk (Accipiter haplochrous)
- white goshawk (Accipiter novaehollandiae)
Translations
[edit]bird of prey principally in the genus Accipiter
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Further reading
[edit]goshawk on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Accipitridae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
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