| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| bustard |
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| SYLLABICATION: | bus·tard |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  b s t rd |
| NOUN: | Any of various large, long-legged Old World game birds of the family Otididae that frequent dry, open, grassy plains. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English, from blend of Old French bistarde and Old French oustarde, both from Latin avis tarda : avis, bird; see awi- in Appendix I + tarda, feminine of tardus, slow.
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