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Button Quail

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Noun

1. bustard quail, button quail, button-quail, hemipode

small quail-like terrestrial bird of southern Eurasia and northern Africa that lacks a hind toe; classified with wading birds but inhabits grassy plains

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Button Quail

see synonyms of button quail
noun
any small quail-like terrestrial bird of the genus Turnix, such as T. sylvatica (striped button quail), occurring in tropical and subtropical regions of the Old World: family Turnicidae, order Gruiformes (cranes, rails, etc)
. Also called: hemipode

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Button Quail

see synonyms of button quail
any of a family (Turnicidae) of small gruiform birds that resemble quail and live in the warm regions of the Old World

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

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