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capercaillie
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Capercailzie \Ca"per*cail`zie\, or Capercally \Ca"per*cal`ly\, n. [Gael, capulcoile.] (Zo["o]l.) A species of black Old World grouse ( Tetrao uragallus) of large size and fine flavor, found in northern Europe and formerly in Scotland; -- called also cock of the woods and horse of the wood. [Written also capercaillie, capercaili.]
Wiktionary
n. A large, black grouse of the genus ''Tetrao'' in the bird family Phasianidae, especially the western capercaillie, ''Tetrao urogallus''.
WordNet
n. large black Old World grouse [syn: capercailzie, horse of the wood, Tetrao urogallus]
Wikipedia
Capercaillie may refer to:
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Capercaillie (band), the Scottish folk band
- Capercaillie, an album by the Scottish folk group
- Black-billed Capercaillie (Tetrao parvirostris), large grouse species, which breeds in eastern Russia and parts of northern Mongolia and China
- Cantabrian Capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus cantabricus), subspecies of the Western Capercaillie, found previously throughout the Cantabrian Mountains but now only in northwest Spain
- Western Capercaillie {Tetrao urogallus}, largest member of the grouse family, which breeds across northern parts of Europe and western and central Asia
Capercaillie are a Scottish folk band, founded in the 1980s by Donald Shaw and fronted by Karen Matheson. Capercaillie performs traditional Gaelic songs and tunes, as well as contemporary English language songs and tunes. The group adapts traditional Gaelic music and traditional lyrics with modern production techniques with instruments such as electric guitar or bass and rarely synthesisers or drum machines. They have seen four of their albums placed in the UK Albums Chart, and continue to perform and record to the present day.
Usage examples of "capercaillie".
And this person mystified and delighted Katharine so much that I was forced to keep paying him money for one imitation after another and soon felt very foolish standing in a gawping crowd and listening to a man pretending to be a chicken and a hog and a capercaillie and a new-born lamb.
He would set snares for squirrel and hare, then leave them overnight while he pushed on in hopes of knocking down a capercaillie or the like.
In the branches of a dwarf spruce a solitary capercaillie sat, unperturbed, eyeing them as they passed.