Definition of Coturnix coturnix

1. Noun. The typical Old World quail.

Exact synonyms: Coturnix Communis, Migratory Quail
Generic synonyms: Old World Quail

Lexicographical Neighbors of Coturnix Coturnix

Cotte's operation
Cottidae
Cotton
Cotton State
Cotton effect
Cottrell precipitator
Cottus
Cotula
Cotula coronopifolia
Cotunnius' aqueduct
Cotunnius' canal
Cotunnius' liquid
Cotunnius' space
Cotunnius disease
Coturnix communis
Coturnix coturnix
Cotylogonimus
Coules
Coulomb's constant
Coulomb's law
Coulomb attraction
Coulomb barrier
Coulomb barriers
Coulomb blockade
Coulomb blockades
Coulomb collision
Coulomb energies
Coulomb energy
Coulomb explosion
Coulomb explosions

Literary usage of Coturnix coturnix

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Hand-book to the Birds of Great Britain by Richard Bowdler Sharpe (1897)
"coturnix coturnix. Tetrao coturnix, Linn. Syst. Nat. ip 278 (1766). ... coturnix coturnix, Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 231 (1893); id. in Allen's Nat ..."

2. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum by Richard Bowdler Sharpe, British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology (1893)
"335 [(Aprils]. p. 85 (1844) ; id. Icon, tried, in Brit. Mu», nos. 130, 131. coturnix coturnix, Licht. Numeric!. Av. p. 84 (18-54) ; Sharpe, ed. ..."

3. Popular Science Monthly (1901)
"The Old World migratory quail (coturnix coturnix) is one of the comparatively few migrants among the so-called game birds. During the migrations they wander ..."

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