Attwater's prairie chicken

English

Etymology

Named after the naturalist Henry Philemon Attwater.

Noun

Attwater's prairie chicken (plural Attwater's prairie chickens)

  1. A highly endangered subspecies, Tympanuchus cupido attwateri, of the greater prairie chicken.

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