BUSTARD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bustard mean? 

• BUSTARD (noun)
  The noun BUSTARD has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: BUSTARD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BUSTARD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("bustard" is a kind of...):

wader; wading bird (any of many long-legged birds that wade in water in search of food)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bustard"):

great bustard; Otis tarda (largest European land bird)

Choriotis australis; plain turkey (popular Australian game bird)

Holonyms ("bustard" is a member of...):

family Otididae; Otididae (bustards)

 Context examples 

Once a white-necked sea eagle soared screaming high over the traveller's head, and again a flock of brown bustards popped up from among the bracken, and blundered away in their clumsy fashion, half running, half flying, with strident cry and whirr of wings.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)