greater prairie chicken

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   the most common variety of prairie chicken

   SynonymsTympanuchus cupido

   Broaderprairie chicken

Questions about greater prairie chicken

What does greater prairie chicken mean?

greater prairie chicken means "the most common variety of prairie chicken".

What is another word for greater prairie chicken?

Close synonyms include Tympanuchus cupido. 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 greater prairie chicken a common word?

greater prairie chicken 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.