English to afrikaans meaning of

ptarmigan

Die woordeboekdefinisie van "ptarmigan" is 'n mediumgrootte wildvoël wat die Arktiese en ander koue streke bewoon, wat tipies wit verekleed het wat in die winter bruin word. Die wetenskaplike naam vir ryp is Lagopus, en daar is verskeie spesies, insluitend die wilgerptarmia en die rotsptarmia. Daar word geglo dat die woord "ptarmigan" afkomstig is van 'n Skotse Gaeliese woord "tàrmachan," wat "kraker" beteken.

Sentence Examples

  1. He recollected something, dropped the burden, and trotted back to where he had left the ptarmigan.
  2. The ptarmigan struggled against him, showering blows upon him with her free wing.
  3. It was better to eat small live things like ptarmigan chicks, and to let alone large live things like ptarmigan hens.
  4. After a time, the ptarmigan ceased her struggling.
  5. Our lords of the rock and air, the ptarmigan, swore that this crown allows one to control the animal kingdom.
  6. He knew clearly what was to be done, and this he did by promptly eating the ptarmigan.
  7. Then he remembered, and, turning on the back-track, started for home, carrying the ptarmigan in his mouth.
  8. It was by sheer blundering that he chanced upon the shrewdly hidden ptarmigan nest.
  9. The rotten bark gave way under his feet, and with a despairing yelp he pitched down the rounded crescent, smashed through the leafage and stalks of a small bush, and in the heart of the bush, on the ground, fetched up in the midst of seven ptarmigan chicks.
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