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Definition of Sandgrouse
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 Sandgrouse
1. Noun. Any of several species of birds in the family Pteroclididae. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sandgrouse
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sandgrouse
Literary usage of Sandgrouse
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1891)
"Curiously enough, no sandgrouse came to this pool at evening, although we had
seen them at other waters at about sundown ; but, on the two following ..."
2. Longman's Magazine by Charles James Longman (1891)
"Curiously enough, no sandgrouse came to this pool at evening, although we had
seen them at other waters at about sundown; but, on the two following mornings ..."
3. Gun and Camera in Southern Africa: A Year of Wanderings in Bechuanaland, the by Henry Anderson Bryden (1893)
"It is worthy of note that this species drink only in the evening ; the Namaqua
sandgrouse between eight and ten in the morning, and sometimes in the ..."
4. Gun and Camera in Southern Africa: A Year of Wanderings in Bechuanaland, the by Henry Anderson Bryden (1893)
"It is worthy of note that this species drink only in the evening ; the Namaqua
sandgrouse between eight and ten in the morning, and sometimes in the ..."
5. The Great Sahara: Wanderings South of the Atlas Mountains by Henry Baker Tristram (1860)
"In the pursuit of the sandgrouse no such dallying is allowed as with the bustard.
... The flight of the sandgrouse resembles that of the golden plover, ..."
6. International Catalogue of Scientific Literature by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1905)
"Unusual abundance of sandgrouse at Deere. Bombay, J. Nat. Hist. ... sandgrouse in
Northern Occurrence of the red- breasted merganser ..."
7. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1891)
"Curiously enough, no sandgrouse came to this pool at evening, although we had
seen them at other waters at about sundown ; but, on the two following ..."
8. Longman's Magazine by Charles James Longman (1891)
"Curiously enough, no sandgrouse came to this pool at evening, although we had
seen them at other waters at about sundown; but, on the two following mornings ..."
9. Gun and Camera in Southern Africa: A Year of Wanderings in Bechuanaland, the by Henry Anderson Bryden (1893)
"It is worthy of note that this species drink only in the evening ; the Namaqua
sandgrouse between eight and ten in the morning, and sometimes in the ..."
10. Gun and Camera in Southern Africa: A Year of Wanderings in Bechuanaland, the by Henry Anderson Bryden (1893)
"It is worthy of note that this species drink only in the evening ; the Namaqua
sandgrouse between eight and ten in the morning, and sometimes in the ..."
11. The Great Sahara: Wanderings South of the Atlas Mountains by Henry Baker Tristram (1860)
"In the pursuit of the sandgrouse no such dallying is allowed as with the bustard.
... The flight of the sandgrouse resembles that of the golden plover, ..."
12. International Catalogue of Scientific Literature by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1905)
"Unusual abundance of sandgrouse at Deere. Bombay, J. Nat. Hist. ... sandgrouse in
Northern Occurrence of the red- breasted merganser ..."
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