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heath hen
noun
1. extinct prairie chicken
Syn: ↑Tympanuchus cupido cupido
Hypernyms: ↑prairie chicken, ↑prairie grouse, ↑prairie fowl
2. female black grouse
Syn: ↑greyhen, ↑grayhen, ↑grey hen, ↑gray hen
Hypernyms: ↑black grouse

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noun
1. : the female black grouse : gray hen
2. : a grouse that was formerly abundant in the northeastern United States but is now completely extinct and that is usually considered an eastern variety (Tympanuchus cupido cupido) of the prairie chicken

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1. an American gallinaceous bird, Tympanuchus cupido cupido, closely related to the prairie chicken: extinct.
2. the female of the black grouse.
[1585-95]

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heath hen,
1. an extinct North American grouse closely related to the prairie chicken.
2. a female black grouse.

Useful english dictionary. 2012.