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GAME BIRD

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• GAME BIRD (noun)
The noun GAME BIRD has 1 sense:

1. any bird (as grouse or pheasant) that is hunted for sport

Familiarity information: GAME BIRD used as a noun is very rare.

• GAME BIRD (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Any bird (as grouse or pheasant) that is hunted for sport

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("game bird" is a kind of...):

gallinacean; gallinaceous bird (heavy-bodied largely ground-feeding domestic or game birds)

game (animal hunted for food or sport)

Domain member category:

grouse (flesh of any of various grouse of the family Tetraonidae; usually roasted; flesh too dry to broil)

quail (flesh of quail; suitable for roasting or broiling if young; otherwise must be braised)

pheasant (flesh of a pheasant; usually braised)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "game bird"):

grouse (popular game bird having a plump body and feathered legs and feet)

phasianid (a kind of game bird in the family Phasianidae)

partridge; tinamou (heavy-bodied small-winged South American game bird resembling a gallinaceous bird but related to the ratite birds)

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(English proverb)
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(Bulgarian proverb)
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(Arabic proverb)
"Homes among homes and grapevines among grapevines."
(Corsican proverb)

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