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Noun: bustard  bús-tu(r)d
  1. Large heavy-bodied chiefly terrestrial game bird capable of powerful swift flight; classified with wading birds but frequents grassy steppes

Derived forms: bustards

Type of: wader, wading bird

Part of: family Otididae, Otididae

Encyclopedia: Bustard, William