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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Any of various broad-winged, soaring hawks of the genus Buteo.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A genus of ignoble hawks, of the family Falconidæ, sometimes forming a subfamily Buteoninæ; the buzzards or buzzard-hawks (which see).

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.) a genus of broad-winged soaring hawks.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun ornithology Any of the broad-winged soaring raptors of the genus Buteo.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun broad-winged soaring hawks

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Latin būteō, a kind of hawk or falcon.]

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From the genus name Buteo, from Latin būteō.

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