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sand grouse

–noun
any of several birds of the family Pteroclididae inhabiting sandy areas of the Old World, resembling both pigeons and shorebirds and having precocial young.
Also, sandgrouse.


Origin:
1775–85
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sand grouse  
n.  Any of various pigeonlike birds of the genus Pterocles and related genera, of arid and semiarid regions of the Old World.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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sand grouse

any of 16 species of birds of Asian and African deserts. According to some systems of classification, sandgrouse are ranked with the plovers within the order Charadriiformes.

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