partridge

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   Any bird of a number of genera in the family Phasianidae, notably in the genera Perdix and Alectoris.

   On the first day of Christmas, my true love sent to me a partridge in a pear tree.

2. 2
   noun

   valued as a game bird in eastern United States and Canada

3. 3
   noun

   a popular North American game bird

4. 4
   noun

   small Old World gallinaceous game birds

From Middle English partrich, partriche, pertriche, perdriz, from Old French perdriz, partriz, from Latin perdīx (“partridge”), from Ancient Greek πέρδιξ (pérdix, “partridge”), probably from πέρδομαι (pérdomai, “to fart”).

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