sand grouse
or sand·grouse
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.
Origin of sand grouse
First recorded in 1775–85
Words nearby sand grouse
sand dab,
sand dollar,
sand eel,
sand flea,
sand fly,
sand grouse,
sand hopper,
sand jack,
sand lance,
sand leek,
sand lily
Example sentences from the Web for sandgrouse
Sandgrouse were few, but commoner towards the central plateau, where were water-holes.
The Leicestershires beyond Baghdad |Edward John ThompsonIn pigeons and sandgrouse there is no vomer, but the other bones have the Schizognathous arrangement.
The Vertebrate Skeleton |Sidney H. ReynoldsOf game-birds the most plentiful are sandgrouse, quail (a bird of passage) and snipe.
British Dictionary definitions for sandgrouse
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