ortygan

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek, stem of ὄρτυξ (órtux, “quail, Coturnix”).

Noun

ortygan (plural ortygans)

1. One of several species of East Indian birds of the former genera Ortygis and Hemipodius in the family Turnicidae, resembling quails.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “ortygan”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• gyraton