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Definition of Great bustard
1. Noun. Largest European land bird.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Great Bustard
Literary usage of Great bustard
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Birds of Jamaica: Being a History of the Bird, Its Structure, and Habits by Philip Henry Gosse, Alfred Edmund Brehm, Richard Hill (1874)
"THE great bustard (Otis tarda). " Save that the Bustard, of those regions Monk
... THE European representative of the Ostrich is the great bustard,—a noble, ..."
2. The Popular History of England: An Illustrated History of Society and by Charles Knight (1861)
"... The great bustard. CHAPTER II. Agricultural condition of the South,Western
Counties—Wiltshire—Dorsetshire—Devonshire— Somersetshire—Cornwall—Wales—The ..."
3. Magazine of Natural History by Edward Charlesworth (1830)
"V. Description of the great bustard of India, with Notices of some other Indian
Bustards. By A SUBSCRIBER. Sir, FROM there being no mention made of the ..."
4. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London by Linnean Society of London (1855)
"On the Habits and Structure of the great bustard (Otis tarda of ... on the habits
of the great bustard, as observed by me in the neighbourhood of Seville, ..."
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