Moorfowl

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The red grouse.

    "It was overgrown by enormous beds of reeds, in which moorfowl, water-hens, and coots abounded[…]"

  2. 2
    reddish-brown grouse of upland moors of Great Britain wordnet

Synonyms

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grouselagopus scoticusmoor-birdmoorbirdmoorgamered grouse

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"It was overgrown by enormous beds of reeds, in which moorfowl, water-hens, and coots abounded[…]"

Etymology

From moor + fowl.

Related phrases

red grouse

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