NOUN | animal | sandgrouse, sand grouse | pigeon-like bird of arid regions of the Old World having long pointed wings and tail and precocial downy young |
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Meaning | pigeon-like bird of arid regions of the Old World having long pointed wings and tail and precocial downy young. | |
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Synonym | sand grouse | |
Member of | Pteroclididae, family Pteroclididae | sandgrouses |
Narrower | painted sandgrouse, Pterocles indicus | sandgrouse of India |
pallas's sandgrouse, Syrrhaptes paradoxus | Eurasiatic sandgrouse with a black patch on the belly | |
pin-tailed sandgrouse, pin-tailed grouse, Pterocles alchata | sandgrouse of Europe and Africa having elongated middle tail feathers | |
Broader | columbiform bird | A cosmopolitan order of land birds having small heads and short legs with four unwebbed toes |
Spanish | ganga | |
Catalan | ganga |
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