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6 words match “BUSTARD”

BUSTARD n.
A bird of the genus Otis.
FLORIKEN n.
An Indian bustard (Otis aurita). The Bengal floriken is Sypheotides Bengalensis. [Written also florikan, floriken, florican.]
GUSTARD n.
The great bustard.
NATIVE a.
chycephala olivacea); -- called also thickhead. -- Native turkey (Zoöl.), the Australian bustard (Choriotis australis); -- called also bebilya.
OTIS n.
A genus of birds including the bustards.
QUAIL n.
titute; -- so called because the quail was thought to be a very amorous bird.[Obs.] Shak. Bustard quail (Zoöl.), a small Asiatic quail-like bird of the genus Turnix, as T. taigoor, a black-breasted species, and the hill bustard quail (T. ocellatus). See Turnix. -- Button quail (Zoöl.), one of several small Asiatic spe…