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blue grouse

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.14 in modern English

Syllables
blue -grouse
IPA
13
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A dusky grouse, a bird of species (Dendragapus obscurus), once thought to inhabit both the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific coastal ranges of western North America, originally thought to be the same species as the now-segregate species Dendragapus fuliginosus (sooty grouse), of the Pacific Coast ranges.

Inflected Forms

blue grouses (plural)

Questions

What does blue grouse mean?
A dusky grouse, a bird of species (Dendragapus obscurus), once thought to inhabit both the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific coastal ranges of western North America, originally thought to be the same species as the now-segregate species Dendragapus fuliginosus (sooty grouse), of the Pacific Coast ranges.

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