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† laˈgopus Obs.
[a. L. lagōpūs, Gr. λαγώπους, f. λαγώς hare + πούς foot.]
A bird with a foot resembling that of a hare; the ptarmigan.
1693Sir T. P. Blount Nat. Hist. 385 Some..Birds..live upon the highest tops of the Alps, and that all the winter too..as..the Lagopus among birds. 1773Barrington in Phil. Trans. LXIII. 224 The Lagopus, of which M. de Buffon gives an engraving, is in its winter plumage. |