Definition of Old world quail

1. Noun. Small game bird with a rounded body and small tail.

Group relationships: Coturnix, Genus Coturnix
Specialized synonyms: Coturnix Communis, Coturnix Coturnix, Migratory Quail
Generic synonyms: Quail

Lexicographical Neighbors of Old World Quail

Old World buffalo
Old World chat
Old World coot
Old World coral snake
Old World crayfish
Old World flycatcher
Old World hop hornbeam
Old World jay
Old World least weasel
Old World leishmaniasis
Old World mistletoe
Old World monkey
Old World monkeys
Old World oriole
Old World porcupine
Old World quail
Old World rabbit
Old World robin
Old World scops owl
Old World vulture
Old World warbler
Old World yew
Old world white pelican
Oldenberg
Oldfield
Oldham
Oldsmobile
Olduvai Gorge
Olea cunninghamii
Olea europaea

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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