Meanings
plural broadtails
- The hide or fur of a Persian lamb, formerly used in clothing etc.
Synonyms: breitschwantz
- datedAny of various parrots in the genus Platycercus.
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The mail steamer did not arrive for a week, and I occupied myself in getting as many of the birds as I could, and found some which were very interesting. Among them were five species of pigeons of as many distinct genera, and most of them peculiar to the island; two parrots--the fine red-winged broad-tail (Platycercus vulneratus), allied to an Australian species, and a green species of the genus Geoffroyus.
1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 294
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe hide or fur of a Persian lamb, formerly used in clothing etc.
More synonyms by meaning
nounhardy coarse-haired sheep of central Asia; lambs are valued for their soft curly black fur
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
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