noun
pigeon-like bird of arid regions of the Old World having long pointed wings and tail and precocial downy young
• Syn: ↑sand grouse
• Hypernyms: ↑columbiform bird
• Hyponyms:
↑painted sandgrouse, ↑Pterocles indicus, ↑pin-tailed sandgrouse, ↑pin-tailed grouse, ↑Pterocles alchata, ↑pallas's sandgrouse, ↑Syrrhaptes paradoxus
• Member Holonyms: ↑Pteroclididae, ↑family Pteroclididae
Useful english dictionary. 2012.