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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A genus of American quails, including those called bob-whites; the colins: synonymous with Ortyx (which see).

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

  • noun a genus of birds including the New World quail and the bobwhites.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun New World quail: the bobwhites

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