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τετράων

tetraon · ὁ

guinea-fowl, Meleagris numida

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What it meant

τετράων · tetraōn — LSJ

guinea-fowl, Meleagris numida, black grouse, capercaillie, Tetrao tetrix, urogallus

= ὄρνις ποιός, Hsch. (cf. τέταρος, τέτραξ); Lat. tetrao, guinea-fowl, Meleagris numida, Suet. Cal. 22; but also, black grouse and capercaillie, Tetrao tetrix and urogallus, prob. in Plin. HN 10.56.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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