ORTOLAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ortolan mean? 

• ORTOLAN (noun)
  The noun ORTOLAN has 1 sense:

1. brownish Old World bunting often eaten as a delicacy

  Familiarity information: ORTOLAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ORTOLAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Brownish Old World bunting often eaten as a delicacy

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Emberiza hortulana; ortolan; ortolan bunting

Hypernyms ("ortolan" is a kind of...):

bunting (any of numerous seed-eating songbirds of Europe or North America)

Holonyms ("ortolan" is a member of...):

Emberiza; genus Emberiza (Old World buntings)

 Context examples 

Within an hour the guests were seated around a board which creaked under the great pasties and joints of meat, varied by those more dainty dishes in which the French excelled, the spiced ortolan and the truffled beccaficoes.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)