grouse
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8.1
- noun
- /ɡraʊs/
- That's a spruce grouse.
- sage grouse
- grouse habitat
- black grouse
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Watch on YouTubeWhen the bird goes down on a sage grouse, the eagle will see that from miles away and go down and eat both the grouse and the hawk.
- When the bird goes down on a sage grouse, the eagle will see that from miles away and go down and eat both the grouse and the hawk.
- And this is the removal of young of eggs or young hen Harriers from grouse Moors where they they're reared elsewhere and released elsewhere.
Examples
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Even the most dedicated man-eater depended on deer, hares, and grouse to fill out his diet.
Fiction book (2000) -
I got to bag a sage grouse.
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My father used to take us grouse shooting when I was a little boy.
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And will you be joining him grouse shooting tomorrow?
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We were hunting for grouse.
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Sidney and I went grouse shooting last autumn.
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Let's go grouse hunting.
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Grouse shooting in Peebles.
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During winters, our research team in Kluane saw hawk owls kill spruce grouse roughly as big as the owls themselves.
Academic text (2003) -
My father used to take us grouse shooting when I was a little boy.
Synonyms
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1.0
A warm-blooded animal with feathers, wings, and a beak that usually flies
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3.2
A bird like a pheasant that people hunt for food or sport
Compounds
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9.1
A medium-sized North American forest bird with a fan-shaped tail and neck feathers often hunted
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9.5
A large land bird with pointed tail feathers found in western prairies and open forests
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9.0
A brown bird with spotted feathers that lives on grasslands in western North America
- Specialized
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8.9
A forest bird that lives in pine and fir woods and eats evergreen needles
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9.9
A small bush that grows in northwest North America and has bright red berries
A large black bird from northern Europe with a tail that curves like a lyre
Surface Forms
Etymology
Grouse names a plump game bird found on northern moors and the word has been used for this bird for many centuries in English and other European languages, which fits the bird's round, heavy body. So remember a grouse as a chunky bird you might see flushed from the underbrush.