Definition of Sharp-tailed grouse

1. Noun. Large grouse of prairies and open forests of western North America.

Exact synonyms: Pedioecetes Phasianellus, Sprig Tail, Sprigtail
Generic synonyms: Grouse

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sharp-tailed Grouse

sharniest
sharns
sharny
sharp-and-a-half
sharp-cornered
sharp-eared
sharp-eyed
sharp-limbed
sharp-pointed
sharp-set
sharp-shinned hawk
sharp-shinned hawks
sharp-sighted
sharp-sightedness
sharp-tailed grouse (current term)
sharp-tongued
sharp-witted
sharp-worded
sharp as a tack
sharp cookie
sharp practice
sharp tongue
sharpbill
sharpbills
sharpchin flyingfish
sharpe
sharped
sharpen

Literary usage of Sharp-tailed grouse

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Naturalist's Library by William Jardine (1834)
"The sharp-tailed grouse is remarkably shy, living solitary, or by pairs during ... Like the rest of its kind, the sharp-tailed grouse • Northern Zoology. ..."

2. The Hunting Grounds of the Great West: A Description of the Plains, Game by Richard Irving Dodge, William Blackmore (1878)
"THE ' COCK OF THE PLAINS '— DUSKY GROUSE sharp-tailed grouse— RUFFED GROUSE—PINNATED ... sharp-tailed grouse — Tetrao (centrocercus) Phasianellus. 4. ..."

3. Our Feathered Game: A Handbook of the North American Game Birds by Dwight Williams Huntington (1903)
"The range of the sharp-tailed grouse and the two sub-species (which so closely ... The prairie sharp-tailed grouse is found as far south as New Mexico. ..."

4. Recreation by George O. Shields, American Canoe Association, League of American Sportsmen (1898)
"I wish him long life, prosperity, and millions of insects every day of his life. NORTHERN SHARP-TAIL GROUSE. JOHN BOYD. The Northern sharp-tailed grouse ..."

5. American Game-bird Shooting by George Bird Grinnell (1910)
"The sharp-tailed grouse, while about the same size as the pinnated grouse, is a somewhat plumper and stouter bird, and, from the fact that its tail is ..."

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