grouse : Idioms & Phrases

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asian black grouse

  • noun a black grouse of western Asia
    Lyrurus mlokosiewiczi.
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Black game, or Black grouse

  • . (Zoöl.) See Blackcock, Grouse, and Heath grouse.
Webster 1913

black grouse

  • noun grouse of which the male is bluish-black
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european black grouse

  • noun large northern European grouse that is black with a lyre-shaped tail
    heathfowl; Lyrurus tetrix.
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grouse whortleberry

  • noun shrub of northwestern North America bearing red berries
    Vaccinium scoparium; grouseberry; grouse whortleberry.
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grouse-berry

  • noun shrub of northwestern North America bearing red berries
    Vaccinium scoparium; grouseberry; grouse whortleberry.
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Hazel grouse

  • (Zoöl.), a European grouse (Bonasa betulina), allied to the American ruffed grouse.
Webster 1913

Heath grouse, ∨ Heath game

  • (Zoöl.), a European grouse (Tetrao tetrix), which inhabits heats; called also black game, black grouse, heath poult, heath fowl, moor fowl. The male is called, heath cock, and blackcock; the female, heath hen, and gray hen.
Webster 1913

pin-tailed grouse

  • noun sandgrouse of Europe and Africa having elongated middle tail feathers
    pin-tailed sandgrouse; Pterocles alchata.
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Pinnated grouse

  • (Zoöl.), the prairie chicken.
Webster 1913

Prairie grouse

  • noun brown mottled North American grouse of western prairies
    prairie fowl; prairie chicken.
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  • . Same as Prairie chicken, above.
Webster 1913

Red grouse

  • noun reddish-brown grouse of upland moors of Great Britain
    moorgame; moorfowl; moor-bird; Lagopus scoticus; moorbird.
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  • (Zoöl.), the Scotch grouse, or ptarmigan. See under Ptarmigan.
Webster 1913

Ruffed grouse

  • noun valued as a game bird in eastern United States and Canada
    partridge; Bonasa umbellus.
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  • (Zoöl.), a North American grouse (Bonasa umbellus) common in the wooded districts of the Northern United States. The male has a ruff of brown or black feathers on each side of the neck, and is noted for the loud drumming sound he makes during the breeding season. Called also tippet grouse, partridge, birch partridge, pheasant, drummer, and white-flesher.
Webster 1913

Sage grouse

  • noun large grouse of sagebrush regions of North America
    sage hen; Centrocercus urophasianus.
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  • (Zoöl.), a very large American grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus), native of the dry sagebrush plains of Western North America. Called also cock of the plains. The male is called sage cock, and the female sage hen.
Webster 1913

Sand grouse

  • noun pigeon-like bird of arid regions of the Old World having long pointed wings and tail and precocial downy young
    sandgrouse.
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  • (Zoöl.), any one of many species of Old World birds belonging to the suborder Pterocletes, and resembling both grouse and pigeons. Called also rock grouse, rock pigeon, and ganga. They mostly belong to the genus Pterocles, as the common Indian species (P. exustus). The large sand grouse (P. arenarius), the painted sand grouse (P. fasciatus), and the pintail sand grouse (P. alchata) are also found in India. See Illust. under Pterocletes.
Webster 1913

sharp-tailed grouse

  • noun large grouse of prairies and open forests of western North America
    sprig tail; sprigtail; Pedioecetes phasianellus.
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Spruce grouse

  • noun North American grouse that feeds on evergreen buds and needles
    Canachites canadensis.
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  • . (Zoöl.) Same as Spruce partridge, below.
Webster 1913

Timber grouse

  • (Zoöl.), any species of grouse that inhabits woods, as the ruffed grouse and spruce partridge; distinguished from prairie grouse.
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Tippet grouse

  • (Zoöl.), the ruffed grouse.
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White grouse

  • . (Zoöl.) (a) The white ptarmigan. (b) The prairie chicken. Local, U. S.
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Willow grouse

  • (Zoöl.), the white ptarmigan. See ptarmigan.
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Wood grouse

  • . (Zoöl.) (a) The capercailzie. (b) The spruce partridge. See under Spruce.
Webster 1913