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bustard

DEFINITIONS OF: bustard

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n large heavy-bodied chiefly terrestrial game bird capable of powerful swift flight; classified with wading birds but frequents grassy steppes

Types:
Otis tarda, great bustard
largest European land bird
Choriotis australis, plain turkey
popular Australian game bird
Type of:
wader, wading bird
any of many long-legged birds that wade in water in search of food
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