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PTARMIGAN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Large Arctic and subarctic grouse with feathered feet and usually white winter plumage
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("ptarmigan" is a kind of...):
grouse (popular game bird having a plump body and feathered legs and feet)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ptarmigan"):
Lagopus scoticus; moor-bird; moorbird; moorfowl; moorgame; red grouse (reddish-brown grouse of upland moors of Great Britain)
Holonyms ("ptarmigan" is a member of...):
genus Lagopus; Lagopus (ptarmigans)
Context examples:
He knew clearly what was to be done, and this he did by promptly eating the ptarmigan.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
He came upon a valley where rock ptarmigan rose on whirring wings from the ledges and muskegs.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
He recollected something, dropped the burden, and trotted back to where he had left the ptarmigan.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
And always the ptarmigan rose, whirring, before him, till their ker—ker—ker became a mock to him, and he cursed them and cried aloud at them with their own cry.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
Not for nothing had he first seen the light of day in a lonely lair and fought his first fights with the ptarmigan, the weasel, and the lynx.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
It was a fearful cry, but the fox, leaping away in fright, did not drop the ptarmigan.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
He had eaten the ptarmigan chicks.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
A black fox came toward him, carrying a ptarmigan in his mouth.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
Maybe there were other ptarmigan hens.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
He made a clutch as startled as was the rise of the ptarmigan, and there remained in his hand three tail-feathers.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
