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 buzzard ['bʌzәd]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 贪婪的人, 做营营声的小虫

  1. NEW YORK-- Pitching was always a big question mark for the Yankees, even before what Johnny Damon called" buzzard luck" struck them with injuries to three of their five starting pitchers.
    [纽约]-对洋基来说,投手一直是个问题,即使在大门表示有所谓的”倒楣到家”的情况:五位先发有三位受伤之前也是。


buzzard
[ noun ]
  1. a New World vulture that is common in South America and Central America and the southern United States

  2. <noun.animal>
  3. the common European short-winged hawk

  4. <noun.animal>


Buzzard \Buz"zard\, a.
Senseless; stupid. [R. & Obs.] --Milton.


Buzzard \Buz"zard\ (b[u^]z"z[~e]rd), n.[O.E. busard, bosard, F.
busard, fr. buse, L. buteo, a kind of falcon or hawk.]
1. (Zo["o]l.) A bird of prey of the Hawk family, belonging to
the genus {Buteo} and related genera.

2. (Zo["o]l.) In the United States, a term used for the
{turkey vulture} ({Cathartes aura}), and sometimes
indiscriminately to any vulture.
[PJC]

Note: The {Buteo vulgaris} is the common buzzard of Europe.
The American species (of which the most common are
{Buteo borealis}, {Buteo Pennsylvanicus}, and {Buteo
lineatus}) are usually called hen hawks. -- The
rough-legged buzzard, or bee hawk, of Europe ({Pernis
apivorus}) feeds on bees and their larv[ae], with other
insects, and reptiles. -- The moor buzzard of Europe is
{Circus [ae]ruginosus}. See {Turkey buzzard}, and
{Carrion buzzard}.

{Bald buzzard}, the fishhawk or osprey. See {Fishhawk}.

2. A blockhead; a dunce.

It is common, to a proverb, to call one who can not
be taught, or who continues obstinately ignorant, a
buzzard. --Goldsmith.

  1. A speckled, swirling mass crossed the horizon at midday and circled like a huge, amorphous buzzard, then vanished over the northern hills.
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