a recently extinct variety of the prairie chicken

a small tough perennial plant, Frankenia laevis, of Eurasian salt marshes , having minute leaves and pink flowers: family Frankeniaceae

a North American wildflower ( Aster ericoides ) of the composite family, with small, stiff leaves and white flowers, growing in dry , open places; dog fennel

→ blackcock

a perennial European grass , Danthonia decumbens, with flat hairless leaves

either of two ground-nesting warblers of southern Australia , Hylacola pyrrhopygia or H. cauta , noted for their song and their powers of mimicry

→ brier 2 (sense 1 )

the plant family Ericaceae, characterized by evergreen or deciduous shrubs, trees, and woody plants growing in acid soil and having simple leaves, often showy flowers either solitary or in clusters, and fruit in the form of a berry or capsule , and including the azalea , blueberry , cranberry , heather , madrone, mountain laurel , rhododendron , and trailing arbutus

a popular recreation area near Hampstead in N London

(of a mechanical device) absurdly complicated in design and having a simple function

a temperate scrophulariaceous plant, Veronica officinalis , having small blue or pinkish white flowers

the place of one's birth or childhood

any of various common Eurasian orchids , esp the heath and common spotted orchids ( Dactylorhiza maculata and D . fuchsii ). The flowers are variable but usually have dark blotches

the male of the black grouse