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bus·tard (bus′tərd)

noun

any of a family (Otididae) of large, heavy, long-legged gruiform birds of Europe, Asia, and Africa

Etymology: ME < OFr bistarde (< OIt bistarda) & ostarde, both < L avis tarda, lit., slow bird, prob. folk etym. for name of Iberian orig.

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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