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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A Eurasian game bird (Tetrao tetrix syn. Lyrurus tetrix) with black plumage and white wing markings in the male and brownish barred plumage in the female.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The European blackcock (which see).
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A large, black
bird with a lyre-shaped tail, Tetrao tetrix or Lyrurus tetrix.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun grouse of which the male is bluish-black
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