Button quail Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun small quail-like terrestrial bird of southern Eurasia and northern Africa that lacks a hind toe; classified with wading birds but inhabits grassy plains
    button-quail; bustard quail; hemipode.

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Definitions
  1. (Zoöl.), one of several small Asiatic species of Turnix, as T. Sykesii, which is said to be the smallest game bird of India.

Webster 1913