Noun: buzzard bú-zu(r)d
- The common European short-winged hawk
"A buzzard circled lazily in the thermal currents";
- Buteo buteo
- [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