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lesser prairie chicken

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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.

sharp-tailed grouse.

Also called prairie fowl, prairie grouse.

Origin:
1685–95, Americanism

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lesser prairie chicken
noun
a smaller prairie chicken of western Texas

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