prairie fowl

Questions about prairie fowl

What does prairie fowl mean?

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

What is another word for prairie fowl?

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

prairie fowl 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.