Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A small North American quail (Colinus virginianus) having brown plumage with white markings.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A name of the bird Ortyx virginianus, commonly known in America as the quail or partridge. See cut under quail.
Wiktionary
- n. Any one of four species of quail in the genus Colinus, of the bird family Odontophoridae, limited to the Americas.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The common quail of North America (Colinus, or Ortyx, Virginianus); -- so called from its note.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a popular North American game bird; named for its call
Etymologies
- Imitative of its call.
Examples
“[Illustration: Bluebird.] "The 'bobwhite' is the funniest little bird.”
“The tom had squatted in the 3-foot tall grass amd held like a bobwhite until I was about to step on him.”
“Got into alot of good bobwhite coveys over the years, the last year we went we got into some blue quail which havent been in our area for a long time, kind of exciting.”
What are the best states and best areas within the state for quail hunting? Are Rattlers a problem?
“Yes | No | Report from bobwhite wrote 9 weeks 5 days ago”
“Yes | No | Report from bobwhite wrote 9 weeks 15 hours ago”
“In response to bobwhite, I would like to say a few things.”
“A cz bobwhite 20 ga. double, and a thompson center encore .45 cal muzzle loader please.”
“CRP is not perfect – it has not met its potential to improve bobwhite habitat, for instance – but it has been great for farmland wildlife and much better than intensive row-crop agriculture, which is where we seem to be headed once again.”
“I never saw him hunt bobwhite quail with anything but a 59 even though he had a personal choice of A-5's, M-12's, various SxS's and O/U's.”
“Even in one of its last strongholds on the rolling plains of northwest Texas, the bobwhite quail fights a battle against habitat loss.”
Lists
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Bob
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More Bird Wirds: North America
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—James Thurber, 1952, 'Gentleman from Indiana', in The Thurber Album Jul 14, 2008