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Bustard   /bˈəstərd/   Listen
Bustard

noun
1.
Large heavy-bodied chiefly terrestrial game bird capable of powerful swift flight; classified with wading birds but frequents grassy steppes.



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"Bustard" Quotes from Famous Books



... during this jaunt reaches at times an ecstatic pitch, which, as old Weller says, "werges on the poetical." "For him (the gastronomist) the dark rocks and arid plains of the dry Dekkan produce their purple grapes, and cunning but goodly bustard; for him burning Bundelcund its wonderful rock pigeon and ortolan inimitable; the Jumna, most ancient of rivers, its large rich Kala banse, and tasty crabs; for him yields the low and marshy Terace her elegant florican; ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 341, March, 1844, Vol. 55 • Various

... Bikari, cluster of villages, "Bombay," or Mombay, Bomboma's village, Borassus flabelliformis, or Palmyra palm, Brooks, Dr., Buffalo gnats, ——herd, Bunder Salaam, cook of the Expedition, Burial ceremonies, Burton, Capt., experience of Bunyans, Bustard, ...
— How I Found Livingstone • Sir Henry M. Stanley



Words linked to "Bustard" :   Choriotis australis, family Otididae, wading bird, plain turkey, wader, Otis tarda, Otididae



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