Definitions
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- adjective Resembling a
grouse or some aspect of one.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Admittedly, locals frequently describe these grouselike birds as being "dumb as rocks," but felling a highly nomadic bird with a bow seemed no more or less crazy than gambling on gold dust or a hole in the ground.
How and Where to Hunt and Fish on Alaska's Dalton Highway 2004
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They have a cutting, swooping flight like pigeons but they make that grouselike cackle, and with the lesser bustard and the teal, there is no bird to beat them for pan, the griddle or the oven.
Hemingway on Hunting Ernest Hemingway 2001
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They have a cutting, swooping flight like pigeons but they make that grouselike cackle, and with the lesser bustard and the teal, there is no bird to beat them for pan, the griddle or the oven.
Hemingway on Hunting Ernest Hemingway 2001
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They have a cutting, swooping flight like pigeons but they make that grouselike cackle, and with the lesser bustard and the teal, there is no bird to beat them for pan, the griddle or the oven.
Hemingway on Hunting Ernest Hemingway 2001
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Its summer plumage is rather grouselike above, with a good deal of rufous brown; the back becomes much more grey in autumn; almost all the feathers of the winter plumage are white.
The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told J. Arthur Thomson 1897
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