prairie hen

Variant of prairie chicken

prairie chicken definition

☆ prairie chicken

any of a genus (Tympanuchus) of large, brown-and-white, henlike grouse with a short, rounded tail, found on the North American prairies and along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico
also prairie hen

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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