bustard-quail

bus·tard-quail

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Definitions of bustard-quail word

noun bustard-quail any of several birds of the family Turnicidae, of warmer parts of the Old World, resembling but not related to the true quail. Also called bustard quail, hemipode. 1
noun bustard-quail the blue-breasted quail, Coturnix chinensis. 1

before 1880

One of the 23% newest English words

First recorded in 1880-85

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