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florikan, floriken|ˈflɔərɪkən| Also 9 florican, -ikan, -ikin. [Of unknown origin; cf. the synonym Flanderkin 2.] ‘A name applied in India to two species of small bustard, the Bengal Florican (Sypheotides bengalensis, Gmelin) and the Lesser Florican (S. auritus, Latham)’ (Yule).
1780Munro Narrative (1789) 199 The floriken, a most delicious bird of the buzzard kind. 1863Speke Discov. Nile 58, I shot a new variety of florikan. |