sand grouse

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noun

any of several birds of the family Pteroclididae inhabiting sandy areas of the Old World, resembling both pigeons and shorebirds and having precocial young.

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Origin of sand grouse

First recorded in 1775–85

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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. Reynolds
Sandgrouse were few, but commoner towards the central plateau, where were water-holes.
The Leicestershires beyond Baghdad|Edward John Thompson
Of game-birds the most plentiful are sandgrouse, quail (a bird of passage) and snipe.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1|Various

British Dictionary definitions for sand grouse

sandgrouse

/ (ˈsændˌɡraʊs) /

noun

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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