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Definition of Prairie chicken
1. Noun. Brown mottled North American grouse of western prairies.
Generic synonyms: Grouse
Group relationships: Genus Tympanuchus, Tympanuchus
Specialized synonyms: Greater Prairie Chicken, Tympanuchus Cupido, Lesser Prairie Chicken, Tympanuchus Pallidicinctus, Heath Hen, Tympanuchus Cupido Cupido
Definition of Prairie chicken
1. Noun. Either of two species of flightless bird of the genus ''Tympanuchus'', native to the prairies of North America, the greater and lesser prairie chickens ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prairie Chicken
Literary usage of Prairie chicken
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1894)
"prairie chicken AND WILD PIGEON IN JACKSON COUNTY, ... It has been nearly twenty
years since the last prairie chicken, Tympanuchus americanus, ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"A full-grown male prairie-chicken is fully 18 inches long, but the females are
smaller. The changes in the centre of population of the prairie chicken as ..."
3. The Americana: A Universal Reference Library, Comprising the Arts and ...edited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines edited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines (1912)
"A full-grown male prairie-chicken is fully 18 inches long, but die females are
smaller. prairie chicken, or Pinnated Grouse, a The changes in the centre of ..."
4. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1887)
"Open season for swan and duck, September 1 to April 1 ; prairie- chicken and
sage-hen, June 15 to April 1 ; grouse, pheasant, quail, July 15 to January 1 ..."
5. Our Vanishing Wild Life: Its Extermination and Preservation by William Temple Hornaday (1913)
"... OR "prairie chicken"' THE PINNATED GROUSE, SAGE GROUSE AND PRAIRIE SHARP-TAIL.— In
view of the fate of the grouse of the United States, as it has been ..."
6. The Tribune Almanac and Political Registerby Horace Greeley by Horace Greeley (1903)
"1; all quail and imported pheasants protected until 1903; partridge, grouse, sage
hen, native pheasant, ptarmigan, prairie chicken, Aug. 15-Dec. ..."
7. The Chicago Daily News Almanac and Year Book for (1905)
"15; prairie chicken, sage chicken and grouse, Oct. 1 to NOT. 30; quail, NOT. ....
15; bull caribou, buck elk, bull moose, grouse and prairie chicken, Sept. ..."
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