tragopan
noun
trag·o·pan
ˈtragəˌpan
1
capitalized : a genus of brilliantly colored Asiatic pheasants having the back and breast covered usually with white or buff ocelli and the head in the male ornamented with two bright-colored wattles and a pair of fleshy erectile horns see crimson tragopan
2
plural -s : any bird of the genus Tragopan
Word History
Etymology
New Latin, from Latin, a kind of vulture, from Greek tragopan, from tragos he-goat + Pan, ancient Greek god of woods and shepherds
First Known Use
1829, in the meaning defined at sense 1
- put one's cards on the table
- put one's ducks in a row
- put one's feet up
- put one's finger on
- put one's finger on the pulse of
- put one's foot down
- put one's foot in it
- put one's foot in one's mouth
- put one's hands in the till
- put one's head above the parapet
- put one's heart into
- put one's imprint on
- put one's influence behind
- put one's mind to
- put one's mind to something
- put one's money on
- put one's money where one's mouth is
- put one's oar in
- put one's shirt on
- put one's skates on
- put one's stamp
- put one's thinking cap on
- put one's trust in
- Pawtucket
- pax