Prairie chicken Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun brown mottled North American grouse of western prairies
    prairie grouse; prairie fowl.

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Definitions
  1. (Zoöl.), any American grouse of the genus Tympanuchus, especially T. Americanus (formerly T. cupido), which inhabits the prairies of the central United States. Applied also to the sharp-tailed grouse.

Webster 1913