sand grouse

Questions about sand grouse

What does sand grouse mean?

sand grouse means "pigeon-like bird of arid regions of the Old World having long pointed wings and tail and precocial downy young".

What is another word for sand grouse?

Close synonyms include sandgrouse. 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 sand grouse a common word?

sand 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.