Galliformes -
Noun.
Pheasants; turkeys; grouse; partridges; quails; chickens; brush turkeys; curassows; hoatzins
Animal Classification
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Gestation -
Noun.
The carrying of young in the uterus: pregnancy.
“The adult male stays with a tigress only during the rutting season, and incidentally perhaps, during the gestation period and briefly thereafter.” Boomgaard p21
Definition Source: merriam-webster.com
Grist -
Noun.
Grain that is ground into flour; a potential source of advantage or profit to somebody
“Yet children seem to relish the notion of the pets and toys sitting around after lights out, discussing their owners – all grist to the enormous mill of infant vanity.” (Animals in the Nursery, pg 299)
Source: Carter’s Animals in the Nursery
Definition source: Microsoft Word dictionary
Grooming -
Verb.
Clean the fur or skin of:
The New Oxford American Dictionary
The Essential Hamster
Grouse -
Noun.
1. any of numerous gallinaceous birds of the subfamily Tetraoninae. Compare black grouse, capercaillie, ruffed grouse, spruce grouse.
2. British. the red grouse
Sample sentence: In all its romping I cannot tell if it got meat or not, if grouse exploded from their small snow caves one after the next, going up around the coyote like fireworks.
Word source: "Coyote"
Definition Source: Dictionary.com
Guise -
Noun.
General external appearance.
"The guise of that man is startlingly sinister."
Wells, Paul. The Animated Bestiary. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2009. Print.