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Sand grouse   /sænd graʊs/   Listen
Sand grouse

noun
1.
Pigeon-like bird of arid regions of the Old World having long pointed wings and tail and precocial downy young.  Synonym: sandgrouse.






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"Sand grouse" Quotes from Famous Books



... drinking. For many hours they again plodded on beneath a brazen sky. Again thirst assailed them; and, like Ishmael in the desert of Zin, they were ready to cast themselves down and die. This time they were saved by a bird, a katta or sand grouse, which they saw making for some hills; and having followed it, they found, as they had anticipated, a spring of water, at which they frenziedly slaked their thirst. Many other difficulties and troubles confronted them in their subsequent ...
— The Life of Sir Richard Burton • Thomas Wright



Words linked to "Sand grouse" :   Pterocles alchata, painted sandgrouse, pin-tailed sandgrouse, pallas's sandgrouse, family Pteroclididae, Pteroclididae, Syrrhaptes paradoxus, pin-tailed grouse, columbiform bird, Pterocles indicus



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