buzzard
Other forms: buzzards
A buzzard is a large, vulture-like bird. Buzzards are scavengers, feeding almost entirely on dead animals.
In North America, buzzard is the common name for a turkey vulture. Buzzards coast through the air on wide wings, patrolling the ground below them for food using their keen sense of smell, seeking out the scent of decaying flesh. In Europe, a buzzard is an entirely different type of bird, one that's known as a hawk in the U.S. The word buzzard stems from the Old French buisart, "inferior hawk."
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a New World vulture that is common in South America and Central America and the southern United Statessynonyms: Cathartes aura, turkey buzzard, turkey vulture
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the common European short-winged hawksynonyms: Buteo buteotype of:hawkdiurnal bird of prey typically having short rounded wings and a long tail
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an unpleasant and contemptible person, especially one who is rapacious
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