tragopan
/ˈtraɡəpan
/noun
An Asian pheasant of highland forests, the male of which has brightly coloured plumage used in courtship.
- Genus Tragopan, family Phasianidae: five species.
- I did, however, see a small monkey with enormous military moustaches, a satyr tragopan (answers on a postcard), and a pair of red river hogs - each of which were fairly exciting in their own way.
- Earlier Jammu and Kashmir had the western tragopan as its State bird.
Origin
Modern Latin, from Greek, the name of a horned bird, from tragos 'goat' + the name Pan (see Pan).
- hottish
- hot top
- hot to trot
- hot tray
- hot trod
- hot tub
- hot-tubber
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- hot tube
- hotty
- hot under the collar
- hot walker
- hot wall
- hot war
- hot warrior
- hot water
- hot-water bag
- hot-water bottle
- hot water crust
- hot water cupboard
- hot water cylinder
- hot water paste
- hot-water pipe
- hot water tank
- hot wave