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bustard Definition


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bustard
noun
    1. Any one of various species of large ground-dwelling bird with speckled grey or brown plumage and long powerful legs, several species of which have been hunted almost to extinction.
Etymology: 15c: from French bistarde, from Latin avis tarda slow bird (although it is not slow).



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