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moorfowl
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun moorfowl has 1 sense
- moorfowl(n = noun.animal) lagopus scoticus, moor-bird, moorbird, moorgame, red grouse - reddish-brown grouse of upland moors of Great Britain; Array is a kind of ptarmigan
has particulars: moorhen, moorcock
CIDE DICTIONARY
moorfowl, n.
- A reddish-brown grouse (
Lagopus Scoticus ) of upland moors of Great Britain; the European ptarmigan, orred grouse , also called themoorgame . [WordNet 1.5] - The European heath grouse. See under Heath. [1913 Webster]
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