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单词 bartavel
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bartaveln.

Etymology: < French bartavelle, a name given, according to Lavallée, on account of the bird's monotonous note, < medieval Latin bartavella for vertevella (compare Provençal bartaveo) windlass, < vertĕre to turn.
Obsolete. rare.
The Red Partridge.
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the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Phasianidae (pheasants, etc.) > [noun] > member of genus Alectoris > alectoris rufa (red-legged partridge)
French partridge1611
red-legged partridge1678
red partridge1704
bartavel1774
red-leg1798
Guernsey partridge1802
Frenchman1893
1774 D. Barrington in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 63 273 (note) Buffon contends that the περδιξ of Aristotle does not mean the common partridge, but the bartavel.
1819 A. Rees Cycl. XXXV. at Tetrao The bartavelle of Buffon..the Greek or great red partridge of Willughby.]
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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