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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The common partridge, quail, or bob-white of the United States, Ortyx virginiana or Colinus virginianus.
  • noun plural The American quails of the subfamily Ortyginæ or Odontophorinæ.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.) The American quail or bobwhite. The name is also applied to other related species. See bobwhite.

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