capercaillie

• capercailye, capercaillye, capercailzie, capercally

Borrowed from Scots capercailzie (for the -z-, see Mackenzie and tailzie), a corruption of Scottish Gaelic capall (“horse”) + coille (“of the woods”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kæpəˈkeɪli/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /kæpɚˈkeɪli/
• Rhymes: -eɪli

capercaillie (plural capercaillies)

1. A large, black grouse of the genus Tetrao in the bird family Phasianidae, especially the western capercaillie, Tetrao urogallus.

• (Tetrao urogallus): wood grouse

• black-billed capercaillie
• western capercaillie