sand grouse

sand grouse

n.

Any of various pigeonlike birds of the genus Pterocles and related genera, of arid and semiarid regions of the Old World.

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

sand grouse - pigeon-like bird of arid regions of the Old World having long pointed wings and tail and precocial downy young sandgrouse columbiform bird - a cosmopolitan order of land birds having small heads and short legs with four unwebbed toes family Pteroclididae, Pteroclididae - sandgrouses painted sandgrouse, Pterocles indicus - sandgrouse of India pin-tailed grouse, pin-tailed sandgrouse, Pterocles alchata - sandgrouse of Europe and Africa having elongated middle tail feathers pallas's sandgrouse, Syrrhaptes paradoxus - Eurasiatic sandgrouse with a black patch on the belly