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# capercaillie

«capercaillie» in Mova's school dictionary: **A very large wild bird of the grouse family that lives in…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a capercaillie, capercaillies; also capercailzie)

### meaning for a pupil

A very large wild bird of the grouse family that lives in pine forests in Scotland, Scandinavia and other cold parts of Europe and Asia. The males are black and puff out their tails in spring. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/capercaillie/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In science and nature lessons, especially in Scotland, it is an endangered bird that people work to protect. In spring the males gather and make clicking and popping sounds to attract females. Phrases: "capercaillie display".

### examples

- The capercaillie is the biggest grouse in the world. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/capercaillie/#x1)
- Capercaillies live in old Scottish pine forests. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/capercaillie/#x2)
- The male capercaillie fanned out his tail. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/capercaillie/#x3)
- Only a few capercaillies are left in Scotland. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/capercaillie/#x4)
- Keep dogs on a lead so they don't disturb capercaillies. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/capercaillie/#x5)

### note

Pronounced "kap-er-KAY-lee". Its name comes from Scottish Gaelic and means "horse of the woods".

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «capercaillie» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/capercaillie/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.