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☆ ruffed grouse

a North American game bird (Bonasa umbellus) with neck feathers that can be extended into a ruff: also called partridge in the N U.S. and pheasant in the S U.S.

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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