(n.) A bird of prey of the Hawk family, belonging to the genus Buteo and related genera.
(n.) A blockhead; a dunce.
(a.) Senseless; stupid.
Example Sentences:
(1) All detectable anatomical structures are identified and set into relationship to discernable structures in cockatoos (Cacatua galerita galerita), common buzzards (Buteo buteo) and mynah birds (Gracula religiosa).
(2) Only 1 campylobacter isolate could be recovered from altogether 54 birds of prey although 16 Buzzards (Buteo buteo) were investigated as nestlings.
(3) The diagnosis and treatment of a case of lead poisoning in a honey buzzard (Pernis apivorus) are described.
(4) Other commuter hubs at the southern end of the line, including Northampton , Hemel Hempstead and Leighton Buzzard, are promised similar benefits.
(5) 8 buzzards (Buteo buteo) were infected orally with cysts of Frenkelia clethrionomyobuteonis of the bank vole (Clethrionomys glareolus).
(6) Electroretinograms (ERG) under dark and bright adaptation as well as flicker ERGs were recorded from 15 common buzzards, and normograms were established.
(7) There is an abundance of wildlife here in summer, holly blue butterflies flutter on the breeze and buzzards circle high overhead.
(8) The local Friends of the Earth group in Leighton Buzzard, of which I am a member, had to threaten direct action even to get display boards erected for the bus timetables and then had to put in timetables and do displays themselves as the council did not have the budget for marketing.
(9) Frostbite and actinic damage, abrasions of the nipples, collisions with vehicles and injuries by buzzards are further possible incidents to be reckoned with occasionally.
(10) Twenty-two raptors (red kites and buzzards) were found dead in Conon Bridge, Scotland, in March in what looked like a poisoning.
(11) The gross and histological lesions of a protozoan infection, possibly caused by Leucocytozoon, in parakeets (genera Neophema and Cyanoramphus), budgerigars (Melopsittacus undulatus) and a wild buzzard (Buteo buteo) are described.
(12) Why, you might ask, aren’t they marvelling over how one can get to Bletchley on the train in four minutes, Leighton Buzzard in 11 minutes, Cheddington in 17?
(13) I have never felt such a palpable sense of anger from the public as has been shown over Defra's plans for a pilot project remove buzzards and destroy their nests in order to protect pheasants released by shooting estates.
(14) In contrast, no induction was found in buzzard under the same conditions.
(15) The UK’s biggest operating energy storage system is an £18m battery plant installed by UK Power Networks (UKPN) at Leighton Buzzard, a growing Bedfordshire town.
(16) Monooxygenase activities were not very different apart from a high 7-ethoxycoumarin de-ethylase activity in quail as compared to buzzard.
(17) In the weeks after the latest stalemate, these fears seemed to be borne out by a gamekeeper seeking permission to protect the pheasants he breeds by “controlling” buzzards.
(18) A general survey of Common Buzzard optic structures suggest a certain preponderancy of tectofugal system on thalamofugal system.
(19) The boomerang triumph can be traced back to a single company in Leighton Buzzard whose own general manager is at pains to stress “Boomerangs are obviously not exactly a huge market” , while the naans-to-India bit is a reference to one baker in Dunstable who has invested in a factory outside Mumbai.
(20) Shortly after 8am, James Linacre, a financial journalist, boarded at Leighton Buzzard, one stop closer to Euston, and glanced briefly down the carriage before squatting to sit cross-legged in the floor next to one of the doors.
Harpy
Definition:
(n.) A fabulous winged monster, ravenous and filthy, having the face of a woman and the body of a vulture, with long claws, and the face pale with hunger. Some writers mention two, others three.
(n.) One who is rapacious or ravenous; an extortioner.
(n.) The European moor buzzard or marsh harrier (Circus aeruginosus).
(n.) A large and powerful, double-crested, short-winged American eagle (Thrasaetus harpyia). It ranges from Texas to Brazil.
Example Sentences:
(1) Whatever else Valérie Trierweiler has been portrayed as – vengeful harpy, ambitious meddler, undignified ex – she is also a woman who has had her heart broken.
(2) British feminists being as niggardly in the Sun 's respect as they are about subsidising lap-dancing clubs, visiting Formula One brothels and subscribing to the late men's magazine, Nuts , a periodical brought to its knees by jealous harpies.
(3) "Everything has declined, especially big mammals, there used to be harpy eagles flying in the sky, sloths hanging from trees, but oil exploration is killing the rainforest.
(4) By failing to confront our ghouls – and their tabloid harpies – we merely let them haunt us again.
(5) I’ve said a lot of shit in my life – and you can certainly quote me on the record using that word – but I would never suggest anything like that.” Things Erickson has suggested include the notion that “Obama’s marxist harpy wife would go Lorena Bobbitt on him” – Bobbitt was a Virginia woman who in 1993 cut off her husband’s penis – should he even think about it”.
(6) They hand out an humorous flyers to the public, congratulating men on successfully keeping "harpies and gossips" out of their ranks and maintaining all power within their wonderfully firm male grasp.
(7) In person, Brick is relaxed and delightful company – nothing like the arrogant harpy I'd been led to expect.
(8) Or rather, she was a sort of ultra-acerbic clown: an outlandishly dressed and painted pixie-harpy, who said whatever she liked.
(9) Enter Parsifal, a "pure fool" and Christ-like redeemer figure, who alone can resist the lure of Klingsor's harpies, restore the spear to the knights, cure Amfortas and give Klingsor's arch-temptress Kundry the release from earthly life she so ardently desires.
(10) Forget Donald Trump – Megyn Kelly won the Republican debate Read more Erickson himself, however, has a long history of making disparaging remarks about women, including calling first lady Michelle Obama a “marxist harpy” and Texas politician Wendy Davis “abortion Barbie”.
(11) Elle Fanning is that scheming harpy, Princess Aurora aka Sleeping Beauty.
(12) She has been pilloried as the scorned woman and the vindictive harpy.
(13) The mood swings were back with a vengeance – plunging me into unplumbable depths of despair and turning me into an irascible harpy in the days before my period.
(14) It’s less the White House than the Black Tower, sending out its Breitbartian orcs and alt-right winged harpies to poison the politics of a nation.