" grouses "

[Noun]  | "grouse" | \ ˈgrau̇s \

1: any of various chiefly ground-dwelling birds (family Tetraonidae) that are usually of reddish-brown or other protective color and have feathered legs and that include many important game birds

Origin: 1531 ;

 Origin unknown;

[Noun]  | "grouse" 

1: complaint

Origin: 1918 ;

 Derivative of {see: |grouse:2|grouse:2};

[Noun]  | "black grouse" 

1: a large grouse (Tetrao tetrix synonym Lyrurus tetrix) of western Asia and Europe of which the male is black with white wing patches and the female is barred and mottled

Origin: 1674 ;

[Noun]  | "hazel hen" 

1: a European woodland grouse (Bonasa bonasia) related to the ruffed grouse —called also hazel grouse

Origin: 1661 ;

[Noun]  | "ruffed grouse" 

1: a grouse (Bonasa umbellus) of U.S. and Canadian forests of which the male erects a ruff of black feathers and fans out a broad black-banded tail during breeding displays

Origin: 1759 ;

[Noun]  | "sage grouse" 

1: either of two large grouses (Centrocercus urophasianus and C. minimus) of the dry sagebrush plains of western North America that have mottled gray and buff plumage above with a contrasting black belly

Origin: 1876 ;

[Verb]  | "grouse" 

1: complain, grumble

Origin: 1887 ;

 Origin unknown;

[Noun]  | "grouses" 

[Noun]  | "grouse" 

[Verb]  | "grouses" 

[Verb]  | "grouse"