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Noun: buzzard  bú-zu(r)d
  1. The common European short-winged hawk
    "A buzzard circled lazily in the thermal currents";
    - Buteo buteo
     
  2. [N. Amer] A New World vulture that is common in South America and Central America and the southern United States
    "buzzards circled high above the desert"; "turkey buzzards circled high above the desert";
    - turkey buzzard, turkey vulture, Cathartes aura

Derived forms: buzzards

Type of: cathartid, hawk, New World vulture

Part of: Buteo, Cathartes, genus Buteo, genus Cathartes

Encyclopedia: Buzzard, Anthony