gallinaceous bird

1. 1.

   heavy-bodied largely ground-feeding domestic or game birds

   Synonymsgallinacean

   Broaderbird

   Narrowerdomestic fowljungle fowlocellated turkeyguancurassowchachalacamegapodehoatzincolumbiform birdgame bird

   Part ofGalliformes

   Partscomb

Questions about gallinaceous bird

What does gallinaceous bird mean?

gallinaceous bird means "heavy-bodied largely ground-feeding domestic or game birds".

What is another word for gallinaceous bird?

Close synonyms include gallinacean. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is gallinaceous bird a common word?

gallinaceous bird is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.