buzzard
buzzard definition
buz·zard (buz′ərd)
noun
- any of various Old World hawks (esp. certain species of the genus Buteo) that are slow and heavy in flight
- ☆ turkey vulture
- 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.
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