capercaillie
noun
a large grouse, Tetrao urogallus, of Eurasian forests.
capercailzie
-
a variation of
capercaillie.
Example Sentences
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Amongst the first class are capercailzie, … wild duck, and bittern; and amongst the shy ones with camouflaged eggs are lapwing, … ring plover, and golden plover.
From Nature ● Aug. 5, 2019
No zoologist has been able to say for certain whether the hare was the mother and the capercailzie the father, or vice versa.
From Time Magazine Archive
Tydder and roer are the cock and hen of the wild bird called in Scotland the capercailzie.
From Feats on the Fiord The third book in "The Playfellow" by Harriet Martineau
The ptarmigan and capercailzie were screaming from those upper regions; and the nimble roes, with their fawns, bounding through the green defiles below.
From The Scottish Chiefs by Jane Porter
A clumsy capercailzie, swinging along over the trees with a great flap and rush of wings, seemed to be intent on his own solitary, majestic business—a very king among the fowls of the air.
From The Sowers by Henry Seton Merriman
