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Moorfowl

noun
1.
Reddish-brown grouse of upland moors of Great Britain.  Synonyms: Lagopus scoticus, moor-bird, moorbird, moorgame, red grouse.






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"Moorfowl" Quotes from Famous Books



... granite rocks, some of them larger than a two-roomed house, one beside another, with fern and deep heather in between them where the vipers breed. Any way the wind was, it was always sea air, as salt as on a ship; the gulls were as free as moorfowl over all the Ross; and whenever the way rose a little, your eye would kindle with the brightness of the sea. From the very midst of the land, on a day of wind and a high spring, I have heard the Roost roaring like ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XXI • Robert Louis Stevenson



Words linked to "Moorfowl" :   ptarmigan, moorhen, moorbird, moorcock



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