Definition of Rupicola rupicola

1. Noun. Tropical bird of northern South America the male having brilliant red or orange plumage and an erectile disklike crest.

Exact synonyms: Cock Of The Rock
Generic synonyms: Chatterer, Cotinga
Group relationships: Genus Rupicola, Rupicola

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rupicola Rupicola

Runnymede
Runyambo
Runyankore
Runyon
Runyonese
Runyonesque
Runyoro
Rupert
Rupert's drop
Rupert's drops
Rupert Brooke
Rupert Murdoch
Rupicapra
Rupicapra rupicapra
Rupicola peruviana
Rupicola rupicola (current term)
Ruptiliocarpon
Ruptiliocarpon caracolito
Ruritania
Ruritanian
Ruritanians
Rus
Rus'
Rus.
Ruscaceae
Ruscus
Ruscus aculeatus
Ruse
Rush
Rushdie

Literary usage of Rupicola rupicola

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Annual Report of the New York Zoological Society by New York Zoological Society (1917)
"Besides numbers of the more usual species, the shipments included a fine adult male cock-of-the-rock, (Rupicola rupicola) in the full magnificence of orange ..."

2. Abhandlungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft zu Görlitz by Naturforschende Gesellschaft zu Görlitz (1898)
"... brevipes V. Von Herrn Geheimen Sanitätsrat Dr. : Böttcher: Rupicola rupicola L. - - Von Herrn Dr. von Wissel: Chryso- ..."

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