grouses
grouses is the plural of grouse.
grouses is the third-person singular simple present indicative of grouse.
Meaning of grouse
Noun (1)
grouse (countable and uncountable, plural grouse or grouses)
- Any of various game birds of the subfamily Tetraoninae which inhabit temperate and subarctic regions of the Northern Hemisphere; specifically, the red grouse (Lagopus scotica) native to heather moorland on the British Isles.
- Among fowls for the table [of King Henry VIII] are crocards, winders, runners, grows, and peions, but neither Turky or Guiney-fowl.1531 January, “XXI. Extracts from a MS. Dated ‘apud Eltham, mense Jan. 22 Hen. VIII.’ Communicated to the Society by Owen Salusbury Brereton, Esq; Read at the Society of Antiquaries, April 9, 1772.”...
- The flesh or meat of this bird eaten as food.
Noun (2)
grouse (plural grouses)
Phrases with grouses
- sage grouses
- sand grouses
- wood grouses
- black grouses
- dusky grouses
- hazel grouses
- ruffed grouses
- spruce grouses
- tippet grouses
- willow grouses
- Siberian grouses
- Caucasian grouses
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Questions about grouses
- What is grouses the plural of?
- Grouses is the plural of grouse.
Words near grouses in the dictionary
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