prairie chicken

English
The greater prairie chicken, Tympanuchus cupido

Etymology

prairie + chicken

Noun

prairie chicken (plural prairie chickens)

  1. Either of two species of flightless bird of the genus Tympanuchus, native to the prairies of North America, the greater and lesser prairie chickens

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