sandgrouse

Other forms of sandgrouse

plural

sandgrouses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about sandgrouse

What does sandgrouse mean?

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

How many syllables are in sandgrouse?

sandgrouse has 2 syllables: sand-grouse. The stress falls on "sand".

What is another word for sandgrouse?

Close synonyms include sand 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 sandgrouse a common word?

sandgrouse 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.