What does horse of the wood mean?

horse of the wood means "large black Old World grouse".

What is another word for horse of the wood?

Close synonyms include capercaillie, capercailzie, Tetrao urogallus. 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 horse of the wood a common word?

horse of the wood 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.

horse of the wood — meaning, pronunciation and definition

noun

1 senseA person, place, thing, quality or idea.

1.
large black Old World grouse
Synonymscapercaillie capercailzie Tetrao urogallus
Broadergrouse
Part ofTetrao

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What does horse of the wood mean?: horse of the wood means "large black Old World grouse".

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