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• Capercaillie — est un groupe de musique folk écossais, de renom international, fondé par Donald Shaw en 1984. Il trouve son inspiration dans le répertoire traditionnel celtique. La chanteuse Karen Matheson, dont Sean Connery aurait dit : «  Sa voix… …   Wikipédia en Français

• Capercaillie — auf dem Bardentreffen Nürnberg 2005 …   Deutsch Wikipedia

• Capercaillie — es una banda folclórica de Escocia fundada en los años ochenta por Donald Shaw y liderizada por Karen Matheson …   Enciclopedia Universal

• capercaillie — is a Scottish Gaelic word for a wood grouse. This is now the normal spelling (formerly also capercailzie, the z representing y in older Scots orthography), and the pronunciation is cap ǝ kay li …   Modern English usage

• capercaillie — (Scottish also capercailzie) ► NOUN (pl. capercaillies) ▪ a large turkey like grouse of mature pine forests in northern Europe. ORIGIN from Scottish Gaelic capull coille, horse of the wood …   English terms dictionary

• capercaillie — [kap΄ər kāl΄yē, kap΄ər kāl΄zēkap΄ər kāl′yē] n. [< Gael capull (< L caballus, horse) + coille, forest, hence lit., horse of the woods] the largest species of European grouse (Tetrao urogallus): also capercailzie [kap΄ər kāl΄yē, kap΄ər… …   English World dictionary

• Capercaillie — Taxobox name = Capercaillie status = LC | status system = IUCN3.1 status ref = IUCN2006|assessors=BirdLife International|year=2004|id=47085|title=Tetrao urogallus|downloaded=11 May 2006 Database entry includes justification for why this species… …   Wikipedia

• capercaillie — Capercailzie Ca per*cail zie, or Capercally Ca per*cal ly, n. [Gael, capulcoile.] (Zo[ o]l.) A species of black Old World grouse ({Tetrao uragallus}) of large size and fine flavor, found in northern Europe and formerly in Scotland; called also… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• capercaillie — [16] The name of the capercaillie, a very large species of grouse, means literally ‘horse of the woods’ in Scots Gaelic. The Gaelic form of the word is capalcoille, a compound formed from capall ‘horse’ (probably borrowed from Latin caballus… …   The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

• Capercaillie — kurtinys statusas T sritis zoologija | vardynas atitikmenys: lot. Tetrao urogallus angl. Capercaillie vok. Auerhuhn …   Paukščių anatomijos terminai