(n. sing. & pl.) Any of the numerous species of gallinaceous birds of the family Tetraonidae, and subfamily Tetraoninae, inhabiting Europe, Asia, and North America. They have plump bodies, strong, well-feathered legs, and usually mottled plumage. The group includes the ptarmigans (Lagopus), having feathered feet.
(v. i.) To seek or shoot grouse.
(v. i.) To complain or grumble.
Example Sentences:
(1) Forty-nine Colorado birds of 6 galliform species were positive for Plasmodium (Giovannolaia) pedioecetii which we feel to be the same parasite described by Wetmore (1939) from a shaptailed grouse from North Dakota.
(2) At this stage, however, the allure of big money Super Pacs has been much stronger on the GOP side, although their ineffectiveness in slowing Trump’s inexorable rise has spawned grousing and finger pointing.
(3) The caecal mucosa of wild young and adult grouse infected naturally with Trichostrongylus tenuis was examined by means of scanning electron microscopy and compared with adult grouse which had been treated with an anthelmintic.
(4) Neoplasms were identified in 3 of 13 free-flying ruffed grouse submitted to the Southeastern Cooperative Wildlife Disease Study during a 10-year period.
(5) The susceptibility of the red grouse to infection is discussed.
(6) Maybe poor old David Cameron might have fared a lot better had he dropped the “call me Dave” stuff and turned up to Downing Street in tweed plus-fours and a dead grouse under his arm.
(7) However, there was no evidence of an intensity-dependent decrease of worm fecundity with increasing worm numbers in either captive or wild grouse.
(8) The resistance of captive reared red grouse to Trichostrongylus tenuis was measured as the proportion of ingested infective 3rd-stage larvae which failed to develop to adult worms.
(9) Instead, we returned to the old political tropes: a prime minister outside Downing street, backbenchers grousing on rolling news channels, financial experts delighted outside City buildings and Nigel Farage on College Green, standing outside the palace he wants to get in.
(10) It is concluded that chickens rapidly expel an established infection of T. tenuis, unlike the normal host, the red grouse.
(11) Even when we had 14 pairs here, the RSPB still wanted more, instead of dispelling the myth that the harrier could take gamekeepers’ livelihoods away.” Grouse moorland is “the best and the worst place for the hen harrier,” added Murphy.
(12) It can snatch a creature as small as a beetle or as bulky as a duck, but its favourite food on high moors is a plump little bird greatly prized by game shooters: the red grouse.
(13) Three hundred thirty-three blue grouse (Dendragapus obscurus) were examined for blood parasites from 11 sites: southern Yukon Territory, southeast coastal Alaska, northern and central interior British Columbia, south coastal British Columbia, northcentral Washington, southcentral Oregon, northwestern California, eastcentral Nevada, northwestern Colorado, and westcentral Montana.
(14) In 1964 it was the scientific and technical challenges facing the country with Harold Wilson fighting Sir Alec Douglas Home running around his grouse moor.
(15) His tasting menu runs like a list of ingredients and inspirations: Lindisfarne; razor clam; grouse; spring lamb; strawberry.
(16) He said: "Unlike the Tories we will have a grouse shoot against racism" in reference to the Tories having auctioned a "fantastic eight-gun pheasant shoot" in Oxfordshire at their summer ball.
(17) Some birds of prey also thrived on grouse moors because of these plentiful food supplies: merlin were four times more numerous on grouse moors than in other locations (although this may be because, unlike hen harriers, they are too small to kill grouse).
(18) But with beef or lamb or venison, duck or grouse, and even with pork these days, serving it rare so the juices run is not a quick route to the nearest cemetery.
(19) This wild landscape is preserved, Mawle argues, thanks to funds generated by grouse shoots.
(20) Population dynamics of round and elongate gametocytes of Leucocytozoon in wild and captive blue grouse (Dendragapus obscurus (Say)) from Hardwicke Island, British Columbia, were studied from 1980 to 1982.
Grouser
Definition:
(n.) A pointed timber attached to a boat and sliding vertically, to thrust into the ground as a means of anchorage.