† lagopusn.
Obsolete.
A bird with a foot resembling that of a hare; the ptarmigan.
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the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Tetraonidae (grouse) > [noun] > genus Lagopus > lagopus mutus (ptarmigan)
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lagopode1901
1693 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.
1774 D. Barrington in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 63 224 The Lagopus, of which M. de Buffon gives an engraving, is in its winter plumage.
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