🇯🇵Japanese Source WordCode: JA

ノスリ

Native Script:日本語

Pronunciation / Transliteration: nosuri

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Buzzard/ˈbʌz.ərd/
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🇯🇵 Example Sentence in Japanese:

"ノスリが上空を旋回しているのが見えた。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    Any of various medium-sized birds of prey of the genus Buteo, having broad wings and a hooked bill, common in Eurasia.

    "A solitary buzzard soared gracefully on the thermal currents above the open valley."
  2. 2

    In North America, a turkey vulture or other scavenging vulture.

    "Several buzzards circled lazily over the carcass in the arid desert heat."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Middle English word 'bosard', borrowed from Old French 'bousard', which likely traces back to Late Latin 'buteo' meaning a kind of hawk. Over centuries, the term shifted in North American English to incorrectly refer to New World vultures, while maintaining its accurate European reference to medium-sized birds of prey in the genus Buteo.

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