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buzzard definition

buz·zard (buz′ərd)

noun

  1. any of various Old World hawks (esp. certain species of the genus Buteo) that are slow and heavy in flight
  2. ☆ turkey vulture
  3. a person regarded as mean, grasping, etc.

Etymology: ME busard < OFr busart < buson, buison (< L buteo, kind of hawk) + -art, -ard

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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