| 单词 | wood-grouse |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswood-grouse wood-grouse n. (a) the capercaillie Tetrao urogallus (see grouse n.1 1); (b) the spotted Canada grouse, Canace (Dendragapus) canadensis, or allied species. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Tetraonidae (grouse) > [noun] > member of genus Tetrao (capercailye) capercailliec1540 cock of the wood or woods1610 mountain cock1659 wood-pheasant1705 wood-partridge1772 wood-grouse1776 caper1902 the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Tetraonidae (grouse) > [noun] > dendrogapus canadensis (spruce grouse) spruce partridgea1771 wood-grouse1776 Richardson's grouse1831 spruce grouse1842 swamp partridge1874 1776 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (ed. 4, octavo) I. ii. 263 Grous... Wood..It inhabits wooded and mountanous countries. 1838 T. Need Six Years in Bush iv. 30 And the woods with partridges, wood-grouse, black squirrels and occasionally a turkey. a1861 T. Winthrop John Brent (1862) xxii. 245 The brace of wood grouse he had shot that morning. 1917 T. G. Pearson Birds Amer. II. 14 Hudsonian Spruce Partridge. Canachites canadensis canadensis... Wood Grouse; Wood Partridge. < as lemmas |
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