prairie chicken

Questions about prairie chicken

What does prairie chicken mean?

prairie chicken means "brown mottled North American grouse of western prairies".

What is another word for prairie chicken?

Close synonyms include prairie grouse, prairie fowl. 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 prairie chicken a common word?

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.