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prairie chicken noun a grouse, or a newcomer to the prairies CANADA- Clod-hopper, we call him, and stubble-jumper. And when he drives his fat new Buick to the Coast to winter among us we brand him “prairie chicken.” — Vancouver Sun, p. 1/1, 4 July 1961
- Saskatchewan is the only province to adopt an official emblem in addition to a flower: in 1945 the prairie chicken, or sharp-tailed grouse, by enactment was made an emblem of Saskatchewan. — Canadian Weekly, p. 18/4, 30 March 1963
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