greater prairie chicken

greater prairie chicken

noun
See under prairie chicken (def. 1).
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prairie chicken

noun
1.
either of two North American gallinaceous birds of western prairies, Tympanuchus cupido (greater prairie chicken), or T. pallidicinctus (lesser prairie chicken), having rufous, brown, black, and white plumage.
Also called prairie fowl, prairie grouse.


Origin:
1685–95, Americanism
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greater prairie chicken

noun
the most common variety of prairie chicken 
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