rough-legged hawk roughleg Buteo lagopus | large hawk of the northern hemisphere that feeds chiefly on small rodents and is beneficial to farmers |
Ixodes pacificus western black-legged tick | a tick that feeds on dusky-footed wood rat and bites humans, principal vector for Lyme disease in western United States especially northern California |
Ixodes scapularis black-legged tick | parasitic on mice of genus Peromyscus and bites humans, principal vector for Lyme disease in eastern United States (especially New England), northern form was for a time known as Ixodes dammini (deer tick) |
ruffed grouse partridge Bonasa umbellus | valued as a game bird in eastern United States and Canada |
bobwhite bobwhite quail partridge | a popular North American game bird, named for its call |
partridge | small Old World gallinaceous game birds |
Hungarian partridge grey partridge gray partridge Perdix perdix | common European partridge |
red-legged partridge Alectoris ruffa | common western European partridge with red legs |
Greek partridge rock partridge Alectoris graeca | of mountainous areas of southern Europe |
mountain quail mountain partridge Oreortyx picta palmeri | California partridge, slightly larger than the California quail |
tinamou partridge | heavy-bodied small-winged South American game bird resembling a gallinaceous bird but related to the ratite birds |
hairy-legged vampire bat Diphylla ecaudata | similar in size and habits to Desmodus rotundus, of tropical America including southern California and Texas |
partridge | flesh of either quail or grouse |
partridge pea sensitive pea wild sensitive plant Chamaecrista fasciculata Cassia fasciculata | tropical American plant having leaflets somewhat sensitive to the touch, sometimes placed in genus Cassia |
spindle-legged spindle-shanked | having long slender legs |
bandy bandy-legged bowed bowleg bowlegged | have legs that curve outward at the knees |
legged | having legs of a specified kind or number, four-legged animals, a peg-legged man |
straight-legged | having straight legs |
three-legged | having or as if having three legs, a three-legged stool, a three-legged race |
leggy long-legged long-shanked | having long legs |
cross-legged | with the legs crossed, he sat on the floor cross-legged and meditated |