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SANDGROUSE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sandgrouse mean? 

SANDGROUSE (noun)
  The noun SANDGROUSE has 1 sense:

1. pigeon-like bird of arid regions of the Old World having long pointed wings and tail and precocial downy youngplay

  Familiarity information: SANDGROUSE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SANDGROUSE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Pigeon-like bird of arid regions of the Old World having long pointed wings and tail and precocial downy young

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

sand grouse; sandgrouse

Hypernyms ("sandgrouse" is a kind of...):

columbiform bird (a cosmopolitan order of land birds having small heads and short legs with four unwebbed toes)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sandgrouse"):

painted sandgrouse; Pterocles indicus (sandgrouse of India)

pin-tailed grouse; pin-tailed sandgrouse; Pterocles alchata (sandgrouse of Europe and Africa having elongated middle tail feathers)

pallas's sandgrouse; Syrrhaptes paradoxus (Eurasiatic sandgrouse with a black patch on the belly)

Holonyms ("sandgrouse" is a member of...):

family Pteroclididae; Pteroclididae (sandgrouses)


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