sand grouse
or sandgrouse
any of several birds of the family Pteroclididae inhabiting sandy areas of the Old World, resembling both pigeons and shorebirds and having precocial young.
Origin of sand grouse
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How to use sand grouse in a sentence
In pigeons and sandgrouse there is no vomer, but the other bones have the Schizognathous arrangement.
The Vertebrate Skeleton | Sidney H. ReynoldsSandgrouse were few, but commoner towards the central plateau, where were water-holes.
The Leicestershires beyond Baghdad | Edward John ThompsonOf game-birds the most plentiful are sandgrouse, quail (a bird of passage) and snipe.
British Dictionary definitions for sandgrouse
/ (ˈsændˌɡraʊs) /
any bird of the family Pteroclididae, of dry regions of the Old World, having very short feet, a short bill, and long pointed wings and tail: order Columbiformes
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