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Galliformes -  Noun. Pheasants; turkeys; grouse; partridges; quails; chickens; brush turkeys; curassows; hoatzins Animal Classification Dictionary.com
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.