Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Buzzard-like; resembling a buzzard; belonging to the group of hawks of which the genus Buteo is typical.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective relating to or resembling a hawk of the genus Buteo.
- noun any hawk of the genus Buteo.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any hawk of the genus Buteo
- adjective relating to or resembling a hawk of the genus Buteo
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Examples
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While unfortunately few phylogenetic studies include both species together, a comprehensive recent DNA-based phylogeny found the two to be well apart, with Polyboroides down with Old World vultures and honey buzzards, while Geranospiza was in the buteonine clade that also includes Buteo (of course) and Leucopternus (Lerner et al. 2005).
Archive 2006-05-01 Darren Naish 2006
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SL (2008) A new genus and species of buteonine hawk from Quaternary deposits in Bermuda
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Matthew C. Brandley et al. 2010
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