red-legged partridge

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   common western European partridge with red legs

   SynonymsAlectoris ruffa

   Broaderpartridge

   Part ofAlectoris

Questions about red-legged partridge

What does red-legged partridge mean?

red-legged partridge means "common western European partridge with red legs".

What is another word for red-legged partridge?

Close synonyms include Alectoris ruffa. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is red-legged partridge a common word?

red-legged partridge is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.