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Great bustard   /greɪt bˈəstərd/   Listen
Great bustard

noun
1.
Largest European land bird.  Synonym: Otis tarda.






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"Great bustard" Quotes from Famous Books



... short a time. From the stifling wynds and evil-smelling lanes of Paris, they had passed to the green uplands, the breezy woods and babbling streams of the upper Orleannais; from sights and sounds the most appalling, to the solitude of the sandy heath, haunt of the great bustard, or the sunshine of the hillside, vibrating with the songs of larks; from an atmosphere of terror and gloom to the freedom of God's earth and sky. Numerous enough—they numbered a score of armed men—to defy the lawless bands which had their lairs in the huge forest of Orleans, they ...
— Count Hannibal - A Romance of the Court of France • Stanley J. Weyman



Words linked to "Great bustard" :   genus Otis, Otis, bustard



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