tympanuchus pallidicinctus

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   a smaller prairie chicken of western Texas

   Synonymslesser prairie chicken

   Broaderprairie chicken

Questions about tympanuchus pallidicinctus

What does tympanuchus pallidicinctus mean?

tympanuchus pallidicinctus means "a smaller prairie chicken of western Texas".

What is another word for tympanuchus pallidicinctus?

Close synonyms include lesser prairie chicken. 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 tympanuchus pallidicinctus a common word?

tympanuchus pallidicinctus 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.