red grouse

Questions about red grouse

What does red grouse mean?

red grouse means "reddish-brown grouse of upland moors of Great Britain".

What is another word for red grouse?

Close synonyms include moorfowl, moorbird, moor-bird, moorgame, Lagopus scoticus. 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 red grouse a common word?

red 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.