prairie grouse

Questions about prairie grouse

What does prairie grouse mean?

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

What is another word for prairie grouse?

Close synonyms include prairie chicken, 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 grouse a common word?

prairie grouse 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.