单词 | bustard |
释义 | bustard /bus"teuhrd/, n. any of several large, chiefly terrestrial and ground-running birds of the family Otididae, of the Old World and Australia, related to the cranes. [1425-75; late ME, appar. b. MF bistarde (OIt bistarda) and MF oustarde, both < L avis tarda (Pliny) lit., slow bird, though tarda may be a non-L word, taken erroneously as fem. of tardus] |
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