red grouse

Questions about red grouse

What is another word for red grouse?

It depends which red grouse you mean. In the sense “reddish-brown grouse of upland moors of Great Britain”, the synonyms are moorfowl, moorbird, moor-bird, moorgame, Lagopus scoticus. Across all 1 sense there are 5 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of red grouse?

WordNet records no antonym for red grouse. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for red grouse come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of red grouse

• Full entry for red grouseAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for red grouseWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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