Resembling a falcon in form or appearance; falcon-like or having falcon-like characteristics.
From Latin falco (falcon) plus Greek -oid (resembling). A taxonomic descriptor used when features are similar to falcons but not necessarily classified as true falcons.
Ornithologists use 'falconoid' to describe birds that evolved to hunt like falcons but come from completely different families—evolution keeps reinventing the same winning design!
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