buzzard

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

• noun Any of various North American vultures, such as the turkey vulture.
• noun Chiefly British A hawk of the genus Buteo, having broad wings and a broad tail.
• noun An avaricious or otherwise unpleasant person.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun In ornithology: Any hawk of the genus Buteo or subfamily Buteoninæ. (See these words.)
• noun Some other hawk, not used in falconry, with a qualifying term to indicate the species: as, the moor-buzzard, Circus æruginosus, of Europe; the honey-buzzard, Pernis apivorus; the bald buzzard, the osprey, Pandion haliaëtus. An American vulture of the family Cathartidæ; the turkey-buzzard, Cathartes aura. See cut under Cathartes.
• noun A blockhead; a dunce.
• noun A coward.
• noun A hawk that flies by night.
• noun Compare buzzard-moth.
• Senseless; stupid.

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

• noun (Zoöl.) A bird of prey of the Hawk family, belonging to the genus Buteo and related genera.
• noun (Zoöl.) In the United States, a term used for the turkey vulture (Cathartes aura), and sometimes indiscriminately to any vulture.
• noun the fishhawk or osprey. See Fishhawk.
• noun A blockhead; a dunce.
• adjective R. & Obs. Senseless; stupid.

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

• noun Any of several Old-World birds of prey with broad wings and a broad tail.
• noun In North America, a general term for scavenging birds such as the American black vulture, also called American black buzzard (Coragyps atratus), and the turkey vulture (Cathartes aura).
• noun UK, colloquial a curmudgeonly or cantankerous old man.

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

• noun a New World vulture that is common in South America and Central America and the southern United States
• noun the common European short-winged hawk