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Definition of Sand grouse
1. Noun. Pigeon-like bird of arid regions of the Old World having long pointed wings and tail and precocial downy young.
Generic synonyms: Columbiform Bird
Group relationships: Family Pteroclididae, Pteroclididae
Specialized synonyms: Painted Sandgrouse, Pterocles Indicus, Pin-tailed Grouse, Pin-tailed Sandgrouse, Pterocles Alchata, Pallas's Sandgrouse, Syrrhaptes Paradoxus
Definition of Sand grouse
1. Noun. (alternative spelling of sandgrouse) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sand Grouse
Literary usage of Sand grouse
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Ibis by British Ornithologists' Union (1901)
"Shufeldt an the Sand-Grouse. [On the Systematic Position of the Sand-Grouse ...
The author agrees with Sclater and others, who assign to the Sand-Grouse au ..."
2. The Birds of Jamaica: Being a History of the Bird, Its Structure, and Habits by Philip Henry Gosse, Alfred Edmund Brehm, Richard Hill (1874)
"THE sand grouse (Pterocles arenarius). " But forget not, when praising the tribes of
... The sand grouse is one of them, and is well worthy of our especial ..."
3. The Naturalist's Library by William Jardine (1834)
"IN this beautiful sand-grouse, we see, if such an expression may be used, a more
perfect form. The form of the bird is strong but light, the wings long and ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"SAND-GROUSE, tho name1 by which are commonly known the members of a small but
remarkable group of birds frequenting sandy tracts, and having their feet more ..."
5. The Imperial Gazetteer of India by William Wilson Hunter (1887)
"... kunj, sand-grouse, quail, and pigeon are the commonest. Agriculture.—Cultivation
depends entirely on irrigation, which is mainly from the Nari river. ..."
6. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"Of the former, two species inhabit Europe, P. arenarius, the Sand-Grouse proper,
and that'which is usually called P. alchata, the Pin- tailed Sand-Grouse. ..."
7. The Ibis by British Ornithologists' Union (1901)
"Shufeldt an the Sand-Grouse. [On the Systematic Position of the Sand-Grouse ...
The author agrees with Sclater and others, who assign to the Sand-Grouse au ..."
8. The Birds of Jamaica: Being a History of the Bird, Its Structure, and Habits by Philip Henry Gosse, Alfred Edmund Brehm, Richard Hill (1874)
"THE sand grouse (Pterocles arenarius). " But forget not, when praising the tribes of
... The sand grouse is one of them, and is well worthy of our especial ..."
9. The Naturalist's Library by William Jardine (1834)
"IN this beautiful sand-grouse, we see, if such an expression may be used, a more
perfect form. The form of the bird is strong but light, the wings long and ..."
10. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"SAND-GROUSE, tho name1 by which are commonly known the members of a small but
remarkable group of birds frequenting sandy tracts, and having their feet more ..."
11. The Imperial Gazetteer of India by William Wilson Hunter (1887)
"... kunj, sand-grouse, quail, and pigeon are the commonest. Agriculture.—Cultivation
depends entirely on irrigation, which is mainly from the Nari river. ..."
12. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"Of the former, two species inhabit Europe, P. arenarius, the Sand-Grouse proper,
and that'which is usually called P. alchata, the Pin- tailed Sand-Grouse. ..."
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