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- Dictionaryquail/kweɪl/
noun
- 1. a small short-tailed Old World game bird resembling a tiny partridge, typically having brown camouflaged plumage.
- 2. a small or medium-sized New World game bird, the male of which has distinctive facial markings.
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The meaning of QUAIL is any of numerous small gallinaceous birds. How to use quail in a sentence. Did you know? Synonym Discussion of Quail.
to feel or show fear; to want to be able to move away from something because you fear it: Charlie quailed at the sound of his mother's angry voice. She quailed before her boss's anger.
Quail definition: any of numerous gallinaceous birds, order Galliformes, classified as either Old World quails, within the pheasant family (Phasinidae), especially the genus Coturnix, or the distantly related New World quails, comprising their own family (Odontophoridae), including the genera Colinus,Callipepla, and Odontophorus.
to feel or show fear; to want to be able to move away from something because you fear it: Charlie quailed at the sound of his mother's angry voice. She quailed before her boss's anger.
Quail is a collective name for several genera of mid-sized birds generally placed in the order Galliformes. The collective noun for a group of quail is a flock, covey, [1] or bevy. [2] Old World quail are placed in the family Phasianidae, and New World quail are placed in the family Odontophoridae.
Quail is a broad, catchall word; it can refer to any one of many small domestic game birds. So if you’re bragging about the quail you shot on a hunting trip to your uptight, bird-obsessed pals, they might demand to know if it was the Bobwhite quail, the Valley quail or the Scaled quail, to name just a few.
1. Any of various primarily ground-dwelling birds of the genus Coturnix, especially C. coturnix, small in size and having mottled brown plumage and a short tail. Also called coturnix. 2. Any of various similar or related birds of the Americas, such as the bobwhite or the California quail.
