PRAIRIE CHICKEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does prairie chicken mean? 

• PRAIRIE CHICKEN (noun)
  The noun PRAIRIE CHICKEN has 1 sense:

1. brown mottled North American grouse of western prairies

  Familiarity information: PRAIRIE CHICKEN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PRAIRIE CHICKEN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Brown mottled North American grouse of western prairies

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

prairie chicken; prairie fowl; prairie grouse

Hypernyms ("prairie chicken" is a kind of...):

grouse (popular game bird having a plump body and feathered legs and feet)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "prairie chicken"):

greater prairie chicken; Tympanuchus cupido (the most common variety of prairie chicken)

lesser prairie chicken; Tympanuchus pallidicinctus (a smaller prairie chicken of western Texas)

heath hen; Tympanuchus cupido cupido (extinct prairie chicken)

Holonyms ("prairie chicken" is a member of...):

genus Tympanuchus; Tympanuchus (prairie chickens)