Gloss: a mother-quail
Transliteration: ortugomētra
Strong’s: G8556
a bird which migrates with the quails , perhaps the land-rail , ludicrously applied to Latona, the Ortygian mother (compare Ὀρτυγία)), (Aristophanes Comicus) (ML)
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Gloss: a mother-quail
Transliteration: ortugomētra
Strong’s: G8556