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[The name of George, Earl Macartney (1737–1806).]
a. Used in Macartney cock, Macartney pheasant, and in shortened form Macartney: A pheasant of the genus Euplocamus, esp. E. ignitus; a fireback.
[179.Dr. Shaw in Sir G. Staunton Macartney's Embassy to China (1797) I. 248 It may be called the fire-backed pheasant. 1813Temminck Hist. Nat. des Pigeons etc. II. 273 Houpifère Macartney. Gallus Macartneyi. Mihi...Cette belle espèce de Gallinacé..a été indiquée..par sir Georges Staunton, d'après un individu qui fut offert à Lord Macartney, Ambassadeur Anglais auprès de l'Empereur de la Chine.] 1834Sir W. Jardine Nat. Hist. Gallinaceous Birds I. 214 The Macartney Cock. Euplocamus ignitus. Fire-backed Pheasant of Java. 1840Blyth tr. Cuvier's Anim. Kingd. (1849) 227 The Macartneys.
b. Macartney rose, an evergreen white-flowered climbing rose, Rosa bracteata, introduced in 1795 by Lord Macartney.
1811Curtis's Bot. Mag. XXXIV. 1377 Macartny's [sic] Rose... Native of China, whence it was introduced by Lord Macartny [sic], on his return from his embassy to that country. 1837[ see rose n. 3]. 1908H. H. Robbins Our First Ambassador to China p. viii, The design on the cover of the book is one adapted from a sprig of the original Macartney rose, growing in the North of Ireland. 1955C. C. Hurst in G. S. Thomas Old Shrub Roses ix. 93 So many different species have been concerned in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries... Macartney Roses from R[osa] bracteata [etc.]. 1974Country Life 21 Mar. 631/1 The Macartney Rose, Rosa bracteata, belongs essentially to late summer..an exquisite creature with large white blooms and golden stamens. |