great bustard

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   largest European land bird

   SynonymsOtis tarda

   Broaderbustard

   Part ofOtis

Questions about great bustard

What does great bustard mean?

great bustard means "largest European land bird".

What is another word for great bustard?

Close synonyms include Otis tarda. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is great bustard a common word?

great bustard is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.