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Definition: Black Grouse |
Black GrouseNoun1. Grouse of which the male is bluish-black. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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| Tetrao tetrix |
The Black Grouse, Tetrao tetrix, is a large bird in the grouse family. It is a sedentary species, breeding across northern Eurasia in moorland and bogs with some trees. These bird have a group display or lek in early spring.
As with many Gamebirds, the male is larger than the female and very distinctive, with black plumage, apart from red eyebrows and a white wingbar, and a lyre-shaped tail, which appears forked in flight. His song is loud, bubbling and somewhat dove-like.
The female is greyish-brown and has a cackling call. She takes all responsibility for nesting and caring for the chicks, as is typical with gamebirds.
This species is declining in western Europe due to loss of habitat.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Black Grouse."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Animal | Flocks and herds, live stock; domestic animals, wild animals; game, ferae naturae; beasts of the field, fowls of the air, denizens of the sea; black game, black grouse;flocks and herds, live stock; domestic animals, wild animals; game, ferae naturae; beasts of the field, fowls of the air, denizens of the sea; black game, black grouse; blackcock, duck, grouse, plover, rail, snipe. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Black Grouse |
| English words defined with "black grouse": black cock, blackcock ♦ European black grouse ♦ genus Lyrurus, gray hen, grayhen ♦ Heath game, Heath grouse, heath hen, heathfowl ♦ Lyrurus, Lyrurus tetrix. (references) |
Expressions using "black grouse": asian black grouse ♦ european black grouse. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
black grouse | 4 |
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| Language | Translations for "black grouse"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | kaukasisk urfugl (Caucasian black grouse, Eurasian black grouse). (various references) | |
Dutch | Kaukasisch korhoen (Caucasian black grouse, Eurasian black grouse). (various references) | |
Finnish | teeri (blackcock, grey-hen). (various references) | |
French | tétras lyre de Géorgie (Caucasian black grouse, Eurasian black grouse). (various references) | |
German | Kaukasisches Birkhuhn (Caucasian black grouse, Eurasian black grouse). (various references) | |
Greek | λυροπετεινός (grouse). (various references) | |
Italian | fagiano di monte del Caucaso (Caucasian black grouse, Caucasian blackcock, Eurasian black grouse). (various references) | |
Manx | kiark lheeah (black grouse female, grey hen), kellagh doo (black cock, black grouse male). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ackblay ousegray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | galo-lira da Geórgia (Caucasian black grouse, Eurasian black grouse). (various references) | |
Russian | тетерев (blackcock, black-cock, cock of the wood, grouse). (various references) | |
Spanish | gallo lira. (various references) | |
Turkish | kayın tavuğu, çalı horozu. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-e-g-k-l-o-r-s-u" | |
-2 letters: blockages, brockages. | |
-3 letters: arbuscle, backlogs, becloaks, blockage, blockers, brockage, brokages, bucklers, bulkages, carousel, caulkers, corkages, courages, earlocks, glabrous, grackles, grosbeak, lockages, roebucks, rubeolas, subclerk. | |
-4 letters: acerous, aerugos, backers, backlog, balkers, bascule, becloak, beclogs, belugas, bescour, blacker, blocker, boraces, borages, boscage, boskage, boucles, brogues, brokage, buckers, buckler, buckles, buckoes, buckras, buglers, bulgers, bulkage, burgles. | |
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