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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).

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  • noun A large, black bird with a lyre-shaped tail, Tetrao tetrix or Lyrurus tetrix.

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  • noun grouse of which the male is bluish-black

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