Definition of Perdicidae

1. Noun. Old World partridges.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Perdicidae

Peramelidae
Perca flavescens
Perca fluviatilis
Percherons
Percidae
Percina
Percina tanasi
Percival
Percival Lowell
Percoll
Percophidae
Percy
Percy Aldridge Grainger
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Grainger
Perdicidae (current term)
Perdicinae
Perdix perdix
Pere Jacques Marquette
Peregrine
Perejil
Pereskia
Pereskia aculeata
Perez
Perez' sign
Perez reflex
Perfecter of the Elect
Pergamum
Periactin
Pericallis

Literary usage of Perdicidae

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Memoirs of Hugh Edwin Strickland by Hugh Edwin Strickland, William Jardine (1858)
"Tetraonidae and Perdicidae, still these two will be more nearly connected with each other than they are with ..."

2. The Republic of Costa Rica by Joaquín Bernardo Calvo Mora (1889)
"... to the north and northeast of San Jose. It is entirely black, with the point of the beak and orbital region of dark blue. Its flesh is good. Perdicidae. ..."

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