HyperDic: prairie_grouse

English > 1 sense of the expression prairie grouse:
NOUNanimalprairie grouse, prairie chicken, prairie fowlbrown mottled North American grouse of western prairies
English > prairie grouse: 1 sense > noun 1, animal
Meaningbrown mottled North American grouse of western prairies.
Synonymsprairie chicken, prairie fowl
Member ofTympanuchus, genus Tympanuchusprairie chickens
Narrowergreater prairie chicken, Tympanuchus cupidoThe most common variety of prairie chicken
heath hen, Tympanuchus cupido cupidoExtinct prairie chicken
lesser prairie chicken, Tympanuchus pallidicinctusA smaller prairie chicken of western Texas
BroadergrousePopular game bird having a plump body and feathered legs and feet

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