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- Dictionaryquail/kwāl/
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.
noun. any small Old World gallinaceous game bird of the genus Coturnix and related genera, having a rounded body and small tail: family Phasianidae (pheasants) any of various similar and related American birds, such as the bobwhite.
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 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.
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]
