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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 young
Familiarity information: SANDGROUSE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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