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Noun: prairie chicken  'preh-ree'chi-kun
  1. Brown mottled North American grouse of western prairies
    - prairie grouse, prairie fowl

Derived forms: prairie chickens

Type of: grouse

Part of: genus Tympanuchus, Tympanuchus

Encyclopedia: Prairie chicken