ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rough-legged hawk mean? 

• ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK (noun)
  The noun ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK has 1 sense:

1. large hawk of the northern hemisphere that feeds chiefly on small rodents and is beneficial to farmers

  Familiarity information: ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Large hawk of the northern hemisphere that feeds chiefly on small rodents and is beneficial to farmers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Buteo lagopus; rough-legged hawk; roughleg

Hypernyms ("rough-legged hawk" is a kind of...):

hawk (diurnal bird of prey typically having short rounded wings and a long tail)

Holonyms ("rough-legged hawk" is a member of...):

Buteo; genus Buteo (broad-winged soaring hawks)