Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
Definition: Sandgrouse |
SandgrouseNoun1. Pigeon-like bird of arid regions of the Old World having long pointed wings and tail and precocial downy young. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Food & Agriculture | A cosmopolitan order of land birds including the sandgrouse, pigeons and doves with their extinct relatives, the dodo and the solitaire. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
| Sandgrouse | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | ||||||||||||
| A larger image | ||||||||||||
| Scientific classification | ||||||||||||
|
The sandgrouse are a group of 16 near passerine bird species in the order Pteroclidiformes. They are restricted to treeless open country in the Old World, such as plains and semi-deserts.
Sandgrouse have small, pigeon like heads and necks, but sturdy compact bodies. They have long pointed wings and sometimes tails and a fast direct flight. Flocks fly to watering holes at dawn and dusk
Legs are feathered down to the toes, and genus Syrrhaptes has the toess feathered as well.
Two to three eggs are laid directly on the ground. They are buff or greenish with cryptic markings. Most species are resident, but Pallas’ Sandgrouse is eruptive.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Sandgrouse."
Synonym: SandgrouseSynonym: sand grouse (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Sandgrouse |
| English words defined with "sandgrouse": painted sandgrouse, pallas's sandgrouse, pin-tailed grouse, pin-tailed sandgrouse, Pterocles alchata, Pterocles indicus ♦ Syrrhaptes paradoxus. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "sandgrouse": columbiformes pigeons ♦ dodos, doves. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Sandgrouse" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 82.61% of the time. "Sandgrouse" is used about 23 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 82.61% | 19 | 80,337 |
| Noun (proper) | 13.04% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 4.35% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 23 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "sandgrouse": painted sandgrouse ♦ pallas's sandgrouse. 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 |
sandgrouse | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "sandgrouse"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | duefugle (columbiformes pigeons, dodos, doves, solitaire). (various references) | |
Dutch | duiven (columbiformes pigeons, dodos, doves, pigeons, pigeons and doves, solitaire), duifachtigen (columbiformes pigeons, dodos, doves, solitaire). (various references) | |
French | colobiformes. (various references) | |
German | Taubenvoegel (columbiformes pigeons, dodos, doves, solitaire). (various references) | |
Greek | περιστεροειδή (columbiformes pigeons, dodos, doves, solitaire). (various references) | |
Italian | columbiformi (columbiformes pigeons, dodos, doves, solitaire). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | andgrousesay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | columbiformes (columbiformes pigeons, dodos, doves, solitaire). (various references) | |
Spanish | ortega. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Columbiformes. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "sandgrouse": sandgrouses. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: noseguards. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-g-n-o-r-s-s-u" | |
-1 letter: dangerous, noseguard. | |
-2 letters: anserous, arsenous, danseurs, desugars, dourness, graduses, guerdons, resounds, sounders, surgeons. | |
-3 letters: aerugos, aground, arenous, arguses, aroused, arouses, assured, asunder, augends, dangers, danseur, degauss, desugar, dogears, dosages, dousers, dragons, drogues, enduros, engross, ganders, gardens, gaseous, gerunds, gourdes, grassed, groaned, grossed, grounds, groused, grouses, guerdon, nudgers, onagers, oranges, ourangs, reasons, resound, rondeau, rugosas, sanders, sangers, sarodes, sarongs, saugers, seadogs, senoras, sonders, soudans, sounder, sugared, sundaes, sunders, sundogs, surgeon, undergo, undoers, undress. | |
-4 letters: adores, adorns, aerugo, agones, angers, anodes, anuses, argons, argued, argues, around, arouse, arseno, arsons, assure, augend, augers, dagoes, danger, denars, dogear, dongas, dosage, dosers, dosser, douras, douser, douses, dragon, drogue, drones, druses, duress, enduro, erugos, gander, garden, gassed, gasser, genoas, genros, gerund, gnoses, gonads, goners, gorses, gossan, gourde, gourds, grades, gradus, grands, groans, ground, grouse, guanos, guards, nouses, nudger, nudges, nursed, nurses, ogress, onager, onuses, orange, orangs, oreads, organs, ourang, radons, ranged, ranges, reason, redans, redons, resods, rogued, rogues, rouens, rouged, rouges, rounds, roused, rouses, rugosa, rugose, sander, sanger, sarges, sarode, sarods, sarong, sarsen, sauger, seadog, season, sedans, segnos, senora, senors, sensor, serosa, serous, snared, snares, snored, snores, soared, sonars, sonder, sondes, sorned, soudan, sounds, soured, soused, sudors, sudser, sugars, sundae, sunder, sundog, surged, surges, unaged, undoer, undoes, unread, urases, uredos, usages, usneas. | |
-5 letters: adore, adorn, aeons, agers, agone, agons, agues, anger, anode, argon, argue, argus, arose, arses, arson, assed, auger, aures, dagos, dangs, dares, darns, deans, dears, degas, denar, doers, doges, donas, donga, dongs, dorsa, doser, doses, doura, douse, drags, dregs, dress, drone, dross, drugs, druse, dunes, dungs, duras, dures, durns, duros, earns, egads, erugo, euros, gases, gauds, gaurs, gauss, gears, genoa, genro, genua, genus, gesso, gnars, goads, goers, gonad, goner, gored, gores, gorse, gourd, grade, grads, grand, grans, grass, groan, gross, grues, guano, guans, guard, guars, gudes, guess, nards, nares, nears, negus, nerds, nodes, nodus, nosed, noses, nuder, nudes, nudge, nurds, nurse, oared, oases, ogres, orang, oread, organ, radon, raged, rages, rands, range, rased, rases, reads, redan, redon, redos, regna, rends, resod, roads, roans, rogue, rosed, roses, rouen, roues, rouge, round, rouse, rugae, runes, rungs, ruses, sades, sager, sages, sagos, sands, saned, saner, sanes, sards, sarge, sarod, saros, sears, sedan, segno, segos, sends, senor, sensa, snags, snare, sneds, snogs, snore, snugs, soars, sodas, sonar, sonde, sones, songs, soras, sords, sores, sorns, sorus, sound, sours, souse, sudor, suers, sugar, suras, surds, surge, under, urase, ureas, uredo, urged, urges, ursae, usage, users, usnea. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-g-n-o-r-s-s-u" | |
+1 letter: sandgrouses. | |
+2 letters: gourmandises, groundmasses. | |
+3 letters: dangerousness. | |
+4 letters: boardinghouses, coastguardsmen, deuteragonists, glucuronidases. | |
+5 letters: countershadings, dangerousnesses, discouragements. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 61 6E 64 67 72 6F 75 73 65 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
|
| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
|
| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
|
| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
|
Morse Code (1836) (references)... .- -. -.. --. .-. --- ..- ... . |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
|
Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100001 01101110 01100100 01100111 01110010 01101111 01110101 01110011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S a n d g r o u s e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0061 006E 0064 0067 0072 006F 0075 0073 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
|
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)53678070738481878571 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Translations: Ancient 10. Derivations 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
