bustards
Meaning of bustards
plural noun
a large, heavily built, swift-running bird, found in open country in the Old World. The males of most bustards have a spectacular courtship display.
late 15th century: perhaps an Anglo-Norman French blend of Old French bistarde and oustarde, both from Latin avis tarda ‘slow bird’: the name is unexplained, as the bustards are fast runners.
Information about bustards
- It is a name.
- The singular form of bustards is: bustard.
- Languages in which bustards is used:
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Hyphenation of bustards
bus-tards
- It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
- bustards is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
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