单词 | rock grouse |
释义 | > as lemmasrock grouse rock grouse n. (a) = rock ptarmigan n. (now historical); †(b) (in India) a sandgrouse (genus Pterocles) (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Tetraonidae (grouse) > [noun] > genus Lagopus > lagopus mutus (ptarmigan) ptarmigan1599 white partridge1610 snow-hen1648 white game1678 lagopus1693 grey fowl1712 rype1744 white grouse1771 rock grouse1785 tanmerack1792 ripa1830 snow-grouse1884 lagopode1901 the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Columbiformes (pigeons, etc.) > [noun] > family Pteroclidae (sand-grouse) > pterocles namaqua (Namaqua sandgrouse) Namaqua partridge1790 Namaqua grouse1801 rock grouse1864 Namaqua sandgrouse1891 1785 T. Pennant Arctic Zool. II. ii. 312 Rock..Grous... Never takes shelter in the woods, but sits on the rocks, or burrows in the snow. 1831 Richardson in Wilson's Amer. Ornith. IV. 330 The rock grouse, in its manners and mode of living, resembles the willow grouse. 1864 T. C. Jerdon Game Birds & Wild Fowl of India 8 The Sand-grouse or Rock-grouse [are] commonly called Rock-pigeons in India. 1885 E. Balfour Cycl. India (ed. 3) III. 302/2 Pterocles.., the sand grouse or rock grouse of Europeans in India. 1889 M. Reid Young Voyageurs (new ed.) xxxiv. 327 It is a larger bird than the other, which is ‘the rock-grouse’ (Tetrao rupestris). Both are sometimes, though erroneously, called ‘ptarmigan’. 1921 A. F. R. Wollaston Life Alfred Newton x. 176 Edwards described and figured under the name of ‘Rock Grouse’ a Ptarmigan from Hudson's Bay. < as lemmas |
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