heathfowl

1. 1.

   large northern European grouse that is black with a lyre-shaped tail

   SynonymsEuropean black grouseLyrurus tetrix

   Broaderblack grouse

Other forms of heathfowl

plural

heathfowls·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about heathfowl

What does heathfowl mean?

heathfowl means "large northern European grouse that is black with a lyre-shaped tail".

How many syllables are in heathfowl?

heathfowl has 3 syllables: he-ath-fowl. The stress falls on "he".

What is another word for heathfowl?

Close synonyms include European black grouse, Lyrurus tetrix. 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 heathfowl a common word?

heathfowl is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.