单词 | rock partridge |
释义 | > as lemmasrock partridge rock partridge n. any of various game birds that frequent rocky places; esp. (a) any of several partridges of the genus Alectoris of Eurasia and North Africa, spec. A. graeca of southern Europe; (b) chiefly Newfoundland the rock ptarmigan, Lagopus mutus. ΚΠ 1724 B. Stibbs Jrnl. 22 Feb. in F. Moore Trav. Inland Afr. (1738) 287 Thereabouts are great Stocks of diverse Sorts of Game, particularly Rock Partridges: I call them so, as being mostly amongst Rocks and Precipices. a1792 S. Hearne Journey from Prince of Wales's Fort (1795) x. 416 Rock Partridges. This species of Grouse are in Winter of the same colour as the former [sc. Willow Partridges]. 1841 Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 11 9 We..dined upon rock partridges (perdix petrosa) killed at Ḳal'ah Sherḳát. 1876 J. P. Howley Geogr. Newfoundland 60 Rock Ptarmigan..inhabiting only the highest and barest mountain ridges; it is called here ‘Rock’ or ‘Mountain Partridge’. 1951 H. S. Peters & T. D. Burleigh Birds Newfoundland 152 Local names: Partridge, Ptarmigan, Rock Partridge, Rocker. 1993 Acta Ornithologica 28 97 (title) Nesting biology of the rock partridge Alectoris graeca graeca in northern Greece. < as lemmas |
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