Buteo

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Any of the broad-winged soaring raptors of the genus Buteo.

    "In flight, it has the broad-winged, wide-tailed look of the buteos, the soaring hawks that are built like small eagles."

Synonyms

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buzzardbuzzardgenus buteo

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"In flight, it has the broad-winged, wide-tailed look of the buteos, the soaring hawks that are built like small eagles."

Etymology

From the genus name Buteo, from Latin būteō.

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