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‖ ˈperdix
The Latin word for ‘partridge’, retained in the Douay Bible, and used in Ornithology as a generic name: see partridge, perdicine.
1609Bible (Douay) 1 Sam. xxvi. 20 The king of Israel is come forth to seeke one flea, as the perdix is pursued in the mountaines. 1840Penny Cycl. XVII. 435/2 The genus Perdix, Briss...is made to contain the subgenera Perdix..Chætopus..Coturnix..Ptilopachus..and Ortyx. |