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Definition of Old world quail
1. Noun. Small game bird with a rounded body and small tail.
Specialized synonyms: Coturnix Communis, Coturnix Coturnix, Migratory Quail
Generic synonyms: Quail
Lexicographical Neighbors of Old World Quail
Literary usage of Old world quail
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Game-bird Shooting by George Bird Grinnell (1910)
"Then came the idea of importing foreign birds, and about 1878 or '79 some one
suggested the importation to America of the Old World quail (Coturnix), ..."
2. Geology, Physical and Historical by Herdman Fitzgerald Cleland (1916)
"Even at this early date there were living relatives of the vultures, storks,
secretary birds, sandpipers, Old World quail, sand grouse, cuckoos, swifts, ..."
3. The Mud Cabin: Or, The Character and Tendency of British Institutions, as by Warren Isham (1853)
"Let the nations of the old world quail beneath them; we envy them not, we want
no literature imbued with the fell spirit of a semi-barbarous age. ..."
4. The Mud Cabin: Or, The Character and Tendency of British Institutions, as by Warren Isham (1853)
"Let the nations of the old world quail beneath them; we envy them not, we want
no literature imbued with the fell spirit of a semi-barbarous age. ..."
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