beefeater

See also: Beefeater

English

Wikispecies

A beefeater on a zebra (sense 1)

Etymology

beef +‎ eater

Noun

beefeater (plural beefeaters)

  1. An African bird of the genus Buphagus, which feeds on the larvae of botflies hatched under the skin of oxen, antelopes, etc.
  2. (obsolete) One who eats beef; a large, fleshy person; a well-fed servant.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for beefeater in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Spanish

Noun

beefeater m (plural beefeaters)

  1. Beefeater
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