Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A bird of the genus Rupicola or subfamily Rupicolinæ; a cock of the rock. See cut under
Rupicola . - noun The rock-snipe.
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Examples
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I think it will be often well to admit the license of using a substantive for epithet, (as one says rock-bird or sea-bird, and not
Love's Meinie Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds John Ruskin 1859
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