单词 | red-legged partridge |
释义 | > as lemmasred-legged partridge red-legged partridge n. a large partridge, Alectoris rufa, native to south-western Europe and introduced to Britain, having red legs and bill and black and white facial markings; also called French partridge.In quot. 1813 figurative: a cardinal. ΘΚΠ 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 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Perdrix gaille,..the great browne-bodied, and red-legd Partridge, the French Partridge.] 1678 J. Ray tr. F. Willughby Ornithol. 167 The Red-leg'd Partridge, Perdix ruffa Aldrov. called in Italy Coturnice and Coturno. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Red-legged Partridge..is not found in England, but is sometimes shot in the islands of Guernsey and Jersey. 1813 Examiner 31 May 344/2 Did you ever see one of us red-legged partridges before? 1883 Cent. Mag. Aug. 483/2 Our bird..resembles more closely the red-legged partridge of Europe. a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) II. 1157 Professor Newton sent me a leg of a red-legged partridge (Caccabis rufa ), which had been wounded. 2006 Bird Watching Aug. 10/1 The Red-legged (or French) Partridge..became well established in the UK in the 1930s. < as lemmas |
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