Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for TUR'KEY-BUZ-ZARD
TUR'KEY, or TUR'KYTUR'KEY-STONE
TUR'KEY-BUZ-ZARD, n.
In America, a common species of vultur, having distant resemblance to a turkey, and remarkable for its graceful flight in the higher regions of the air. It is the Cathartes aura. Haldeman.
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