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buteos

buteos is the plural of buteo.

Meaning of buteo

Noun

buteo (plural buteos)

  1. Any of the broad-winged soaring raptors of the genus Buteo.
    • In flight, it has the broad-winged, wide-tailed look of the buteos, the soaring hawks that are built like small eagles.1988 February 5, Jerry Sullivan, “Field & Street”, in Chicago Reader

Questions about buteos

What is buteos the plural of?
Buteos is the plural of buteo.

Words near buteos in the dictionary

  1. butenyls
  2. butenyne
  3. buteo
  4. buteonine
  5. buteonines
  6. buteos
  7. Butera
  8. Buteras
  9. Buterbaugh
  10. Buterbaughs
  11. Buterin

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Adapted from Wiktionary: buteos (page history and authors); buteo (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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