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Definition of Cock of the rock
1. Noun. Bird of the Andes similar to Rupicola rupicola.
2. Noun. Tropical bird of northern South America the male having brilliant red or orange plumage and an erectile disklike crest.
Generic synonyms: Chatterer, Cotinga
Group relationships: Genus Rupicola, Rupicola
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cock Of The Rock
Literary usage of Cock of the rock
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transatlantic Sketches, Comprising Visits to the Most Interesting Scenes in by James Edward Alexander (1833)
"... and other quadrupeds of Guiana—Parrots, Macaws, Vampires, Owls, and Goat-suckers—
Aquatic birds.—Humming-birds.—The Cock of the Rock— ..."
2. Birds' Nests: An Introduction to the Science of Caliology by Charles Dixon (1902)
"... the Shearwaters—Cave-building Birds—The Jackdaw— The Choughs—The Rock Dove—The
Shag—Cock of the Rock—Oil Bird- Edible Swifts—Alpine Swift—Cave-building ..."
3. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People by Ephraim Chambers (1870)
"... having a double vertical Cock of the Rock (Rupicola aurantia). crest on the
head, with the feathers disposed in a fan-like manner. ..."
4. American Roadsters and Trotting Horses: Being a Sketch of the Trotting by Henry T. Helm (1878)
"The stallion Rhode Island was a great trotter, and a trotting sire, and the only
line of trotting blood he possessed came from Cock of the Rock, ..."
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