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phœnicopter Ornith.|fiːnɪˈkɒptə(r)|
[ad. F. phœnicoptère (Rabelais) or ad. L. phœnīcopterus (Plin.), a. Gr. ϕοινικόπτερος flamingo, lit. red-feathered, f. ϕοῖνιξ, ϕοινικ- crimson + πτέρον feather, wing.]
Adapted form of the Greek and Latin name of the flamingo of Southern Europe (Phœnicopterus roseus or antiquorum).
1570Foxe A. & M. (ed. 2) 83/2 Some daies his [Heliogabalus'] companye was serued at meale with..a straunge fowle called Phenocapterie. 1627Hakewill Apol. (1630) 388 The fowle which they [Romans] specially hunted and most delighted in were phænicopters, peacockes, thrushes, and pigeons. [1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. iii. xii. 136 The luxurious Emperour..had at his table many a Phœnicopterus.] 1653Urquhart Rabelais i. xxxvii, Flamans, which are phœnicopters or crimson-winged sea-fowles. 1692South Serm., Prov. i. 32 (1718) IV. 79 Their Lucrinian oysters, their phœnicopters, and the like. 1875Merivale Gen. Hist. Rome lvi. (1877) 452 It was for their rarity only that peacocks and nightingales and the tongues and brains of phœnicopters (possibly flamingoes) could be regarded as delicacies.
Hence phœniˈcopterid Ornith., any bird of the Phœnicopteridæ or flamingo family; phœniˈcopteroid a., resembling the flamingo in structure; phœniˈcopterous a., related to the flamingoes; also in Entom., having red wings (Mayne Expos. Lex. 1858). |