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Definition of Buteo
1. Noun. Broad-winged soaring hawks.
Generic synonyms: Bird Genus
Group relationships: Accipitridae, Family Accipitridae
Member holonyms: Buteonine, Buteo Jamaicensis, Red-tailed Hawk, Redtail, Buteo Lagopus, Rough-legged Hawk, Roughleg, Buteo Lineatus, Red-shouldered Hawk, Buteo Buteo, Buzzard
Definition of Buteo
1. Noun. (ornithology) Any of the broad-winged soaring raptors of the genus ''Buteo''. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Buteo
1. a hawk [n -TEOS]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Buteo
Literary usage of Buteo
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum by Richard Bowdler Sharpe (1874)
"419 Falco buteo, Linn. SN ip 127 (1766, ex Albin) ; Kaum, rea. (1770). ... B.
ip 109 (1871) ; buteo fasciatus, Vieta. Faune Franc, p. 17, pi. 8. fig. l (c. ..."
2. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1876)
"buteo platypterus Eating Minnows.— The intense and prolonged dry spell has dried,
among others, the creek Rio Seco on the San Carlos estate; ..."
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