Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of several small American quails of the genus Colinus, especially the northern bobwhite (Colinus virginianus) of eastern North America.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A name of the bird Ortyx virginianus, commonly known in America as the quail or partridge. See cut under
quail .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) The common quail of North America (
Colinus, or Ortyx, Virginianus ); -- so called from its note.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any one of four species of
quail in thegenus Colinus , of thebird familyOdontophoridae , limited to theAmericas .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a popular North American game bird; named for its call
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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[Illustration: Bluebird.] "The 'bobwhite' is the funniest little bird.
Uncle Robert's Geography (Uncle Robert's Visit, V.3) Nellie Lathrop Helm 1869
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The tom had squatted in the 3-foot tall grass amd held like a bobwhite until I was about to step on him.
Turkey Season Recap 2009
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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.
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My dad just got me Cz/huglu bobwhite sxs. where can i get good pheasant hunting chokes for it
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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? 2009
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The tom had squatted in the 3-foot tall grass amd held like a bobwhite until I was about to step on him.
Turkey Season Recap 2009
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And what are mearns quail, I thought that they are bobwhite quail.
i have benn thinking about getting a neww dog. I manage about 10000 acres of hunting land. 2010
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My dad just got me Cz/huglu bobwhite sxs. where can i get good pheasant hunting chokes for it
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And what are mearns quail, I thought that they are bobwhite quail.
i have benn thinking about getting a neww dog. I manage about 10000 acres of hunting land. 2010
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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? 2009
qroqqa commented on the word bobwhite
They joined gallery spectators in the bobwhite whistle the year the servants of the people solemnly debated the right of the quail to be protected as a song bird.
—James Thurber, 1952, 'Gentleman from Indiana', in The Thurber Album
July 14, 2008