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prairie chicken
DEFINITIONS OF:
prairie chicken
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n
brown mottled North American grouse of western prairies
Synonyms:
prairie fowl
,
prairie grouse
Types:
Tympanuchus cupido
,
greater prairie chicken
the most common variety of prairie chicken
Tympanuchus pallidicinctus
,
lesser prairie chicken
a smaller prairie chicken of western Texas
Tympanuchus cupido cupido
,
heath hen
extinct prairie chicken
Type of:
grouse
popular game bird having a plump body and feathered legs and feet
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