black grouse

English

a black grouse

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈblæk ɡɹɑʊs/

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Noun

black grouse (plural black grouse or black grouses)

1. A large, black bird with a lyre-shaped tail, Lyrurus tetrix (syn. Tetrao tetrix).
   • 1979, Rien Poortvliet, translated by Marlies Comjean, “The Black Grouse”, in The Living Forest: A World of Animals, New York, N.Y.: Harry N. Abrams, Inc.; Peacock Press/Bantam Books, →ISBN:

     The shy black grouse, “with an eye on every feather,” can only thrive in vast, absolutely undisturbed heath and moorlands. Therefore, unfortunately, there are not too many black grouse.

Hyponyms

• (Lyrurus tetrix): blackcock, heath cock (male); grey hen, greyhen, heath hen (female)

Translations

Lyrurus tetrix

• Albanian: gjeli lirë
• Armenian: ցախաքլոր (hy) (cʻaxakʻlor)
• Basque: lira-oilar
• Belarusian: цецяру́к m (cjecjarúk)
• Breton: skilgog du
• Bulgarian: тетрев m (tetrev)
• Catalan: gall de cua forcada
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 黑琴雞／黑琴鸡 (zh) (hēiqínjī)

• Czech: tetřívek m
• Danish: urfugl (da) c
• Dutch: korhoen (nl) n
• Erzya: вирятякш (viŕaťakš)
• Esperanto: tetro (eo)
• Estonian: teder
• Faroese: orri m
• Finnish: teeri (fi)
• French: tétras lyre (fr) m
• Friulian: gjal forcjŕs, gjal forcel, forcel
• Galician: galo lira
• Georgian: როჭო (roč̣o)
• German: Birkhuhn (de) n
• Greek: λυροπετεινός m (lyropeteinós)
• Hungarian: nyírfajd (hu)
• Icelandic: orri
• Irish: liathchearc
• Italian: gallo forcello m, fagiano di monte m
• Japanese: クロライチョウ (kuroraichō), 黒雷鳥 (くろらいちょう, kuroraichō)
• Kazakh: құр (qūr)
• Korean: 멧닭 (metdak)
• Ladin: gial fosch
• Latgalian: rubyns
• Latin: tetrao (la)
• Latvian: rubenis, teteris (lv) m
• Lithuanian: tetervinas (lt) m
• Lower Sorbian: źiwa kokoš
• Macedonian: мал тетреб m (mal tetreb)
• Mongolian: хур (mn) (xur), хар хур (xar xur)
• Nanai: поро (poro)
• Navajo: Tó wónaanídę́ę́ʼ dįʼ łizhinígíí
• Norwegian: orrfugl
• Occitan: gal salvatge
• Old Norse: orri m
• Persian: سیاه خروس (siyâh-e xorus)
• Polish: cietrzew (pl) m
• Portuguese: faisão montês m
• Romanian: cocoș-de-mesteacăn (ro)
• Romansch: cot da draussa, gialina da draussa
• Russian: те́терев (ru) m (téterev), те́терев-коса́ч (ru) m (téterev-kosáč)
• Sami:

  Lule Sami: hurre

  Northern Sami: hurri

  Southern Sami: hurrie, snåhta

• Sardinian: pidraxu de monti, cirolitta
• Scottish Gaelic: coileach-dubh m, liath-chearc f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: мали тетреб m, мали тетријеб m

  Roman: mali tetreb (sh) m, mali tetrijeb (sh) m

• Slovak: tetrov hoľniak (sk) m, tetrov (sk) m
• Slovene: ruševec (sl) m
• Southern Altai: кӱртӱк (kürtük)
• Spanish: gallo lira m
• Swedish: orre (sv)
• Turkish: orman horozu (tr), huş tavuğu (tr)
• Ukrainian: тетеру́к m (teterúk), те́терев m (téterev)
• Upper Sorbian: ćećor, brězan
• Welsh: grugiar ddu
• West Frisian: kuorhin

Further reading

• black grouse on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Lyrurus tetrix on Wikispecies.Wikispecies