lesser prairie chicken

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   a smaller prairie chicken of western Texas

   SynonymsTympanuchus pallidicinctus

   Broaderprairie chicken

Questions about lesser prairie chicken

What does lesser prairie chicken mean?

lesser prairie chicken means "a smaller prairie chicken of western Texas".

What is another word for lesser prairie chicken?

Close synonyms include Tympanuchus pallidicinctus. 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 lesser prairie chicken a common word?

lesser 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.