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large hawk of the northern hemisphere that feeds chiefly on small rodents and is beneficial to farmers

: any of several large heavily built hawks of the genus Buteo (as the European B. lagopus) that are closely related to the true buzzards but have the tarsus feathered to the base of the toes, feed chiefly on rodents (as mice), and are beneficial to the farmer — see ferruginous roughleg

a large hawk, Buteo lagopus, of the Northern Hemisphere, that feeds chiefly on small rodents.

[1805-15, Amer.]