| 单词 | indian cock |
| 释义 | > as lemmasIndian cock Indian cock n. [apparently associated with India as a result of early confusion regarding the bird's origin (compare turkey n.2); compare post-classical Latin Gallus Indicus (1599 or earlier) and earlier cock of India at cock n.1 and int. Phrases 1c(a)] now rare the turkey. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > [noun] > member of Meleagrididae (turkey) turkey1555 Indian cock1638 1638 tr. F. Bacon Hist. Life & Death 66 The Indian Cock [L. Gallus Indicus], commonly called the Turkey-Cock. 1754 F. Watson Animal World Display'd iii. 243 After these are to be named the three Kinds of Indian Cock, all distinguished also in an eminent Manner by their Crests of Feathers. 1893 Racine (Wisconsin) Daily Jrnl. 25 Nov. (Part 2) 3/4 The people they called Indians, and the toothsome fowl they called the Indian cock, and so it is still called in France. 2004 Chron. Higher Educ. (Nexis) 26 Nov. 6 ‘In Russian’, says Mr. Liberman, ‘the bird has always been known as the Indian cock, or simply the Indian bird’. < as lemmas |
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