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noun
- 1. a small, short-tailed Old World game bird resembling a small 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.
QUAIL definition: 1. a small, brown bird that is shot for sport or food, or the meat of this bird: 2. to feel or…. Learn more.
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.
Smaller than the chicken and not as well known as the pigeon, quail is like the often-overlooked middle child of the ground-dwelling bird family. Quail can also mean to cringe in fear or pain. So if you are a quail, you might quail at the thought of quail -hunting season.
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.
1. countable noun. A quail is a type of small bird which is often shot and eaten. Quail is the meat of this bird eaten as food. They dined off salmon, quail, and fruit. 2. verb. If someone or something makes you quail, they make you feel very afraid, often so that you hesitate. [literary] The very words make many of us quail. [VERB]
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.
If someone or something makes you quail, they make you feel very afraid, often so that you hesitate.
Definition of quail noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
QUAIL definition: a small bird that is shot for food. Learn more.
