| 单词 | lesser prairie chicken |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslesser prairie chicken 1. Each of three large North American grouse constituting the genus Tympanuchus, found chiefly on the prairies and in sagebrush, the males of which are noted for the courtship display in which they inflate a pair of orange or purplish neck pouches and make a booming sound; (a) (more fully greater prairie chicken) T. cupido; (b) (more fully lesser prairie chicken) T. pallidicinctus; (c) the sharp-tailed grouse, T. phasianellus. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Tetraonidae (grouse) > [noun] > genus Tympanuchus > tympanuchus cupido (prairie-chicken) pheasant1625 mountain cock1791 prairie fowl1804 prairie hen1804 prairie cock1805 pinnated grouse1811 chicken1812 prairie chicken1832 prairie grouse1851 1832 Amer. Turf Reg. & Sporting Mag. Aug. 589 The French Creoles call them ‘des Phesants’, the pheasants, or ‘poule de prairie’, ‘prairie chicken’, by which latter name, and ‘prairie hen’, all the people of Illinois and Missouri call them. 1840 Daily Picayune (New Orleans) 13 Sept. 2/2 The travelling public will find..a fine table covered with white fish..and prairie chickens. 1893 Westm. Gaz. 1 Apr. 6/1 The prairie chickens (sharp-tailed grouse) meet every morning at grey dawn in companies of from six to twenty. 1920 S. Lewis Main St. v. 54 Not many prairie chicken left now, but we might just happen to run onto a small covey. 1963 Canad. Weekly 30 Mar. 18/4 In 1945 the prairie chicken, or sharp-tailed grouse, by enactment was made an emblem of Saskatchewan. 1978 C. Harrison Field Guide Nests, Eggs & Nestlings N. Amer. Birds 101 Greater Prairie Chicken... Nestling. Precocial and downy. Down pattern like that of the Lesser Prairie Chicken. 1991 P. C. Newman Merchant Princes Acknowl. 596 When I began hunting by myself, I caught one rabbit and four prairie chickens. < as lemmas |
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