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Definition: buzzard
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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: buzzard
buzzard
n 1: common in South America and Central America and southern
United States [syn:
turkey buzzard,
turkey vulture,
Cathartes aura]
2: the common European short-winged hawk [syn:
Buteo buteo]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Buzzard
Buzzard
\Buz"zard\, a.
Senseless; stupid. [R. & Obs.] --Milton.
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Buzzard
\Buz"zard\ (b[u^]z"z[~e]rd), n.[O.E. busard, bosard, F.
busard, fr. buse, L. buteo, a kind of falcon or hawk.]
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1. (Zo["o]l.) A bird of prey of the Hawk family, belonging to
the genus
Buteo and related genera.
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2. (Zo["o]l.) In the United States, a term used for the
turkey vulture (
Cathartes aura), and sometimes
indiscriminately to any vulture.
[PJC]
Note: The
Buteo vulgaris is the common buzzard of Europe.
The American species (of which the most common are
Buteo borealis,
Buteo Pennsylvanicus, and
Buteo lineatus
) are usually called hen hawks. -- The
rough-legged buzzard, or bee hawk, of Europe (
Pernis apivorus
) feeds on bees and their larv[ae], with other
insects, and reptiles. -- The moor buzzard of Europe is
Circus [ae]ruginosus. See
Turkey buzzard, and
Carrion buzzard.
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Bald buzzard, the fishhawk or osprey. See
Fishhawk.
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2. A blockhead; a dunce.
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It is common, to a proverb, to call one who can not
be taught, or who continues obstinately ignorant, a
buzzard. --Goldsmith.
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