英语词汇“tetraonid”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

tetraonid

释义

tetraonid, a. (n.) Ornith.|tɪˈtreɪəʊnɪd|
[f. mod.L. Tetraōnidæ, f. L. tetrao (-ōnem), a. Gr. τετράων, applied by Pliny to the Black Grouse and Capercailye, perh. also to other birds: see -id³.]
Pertaining to the family Tetraonidæ of gallinaceous birds, including the grouse and allied forms; also as n. a member of this family. (The term has also been used more widely to include the partridges, quails, and other birds.) So teˈtraonoid, a. allied in form to the Tetraonidæ; n. a tetraonoid bird (Funk's Stand. Dict. 1895); teˈtraonine a., belonging to the Tetraoninæ, as a subfamily of the Tetraonidæ: see above and grouse n.¹ 1.
1847Webster, Tetraonid, a term denoting a bird belonging to the tribe of which the tetrao is the type, as the grouse, partridge, quail, etc.1862D. Wilson Preh. Man I. iii. 63 The name of the English partridge..is applied to one American tetraonid (Tetrao umbellus), the pheasant..to another, T. cupido.1868Huxley in Proc. Zool. Soc. 14 May 299 The great series of Galline, Pavonine, Phasianine, and Tetraonine birds.1885Newton in Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 333/1 note, Caccabis lies ‘on the Galline side of the boundary’, while Perdix belongs to the Tetraonine group.

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