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
The magnificent capercailzie is now flourishing again in the north, to the honour of those who laboured for its restoration.
From The Life of the Fields by Richard Jefferies
Another "deadfall" for taking capercailzie in Norway is described by Mr. Yarnell in his "British Birds":
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
