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BUTTON QUAIL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small quail-like terrestrial bird of southern Eurasia and northern Africa that lacks a hind toe; classified with wading birds but inhabits grassy plains
Synonyms:
bustard quail; button-quail; button quail; hemipode
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("button quail" is a kind of...):
wader; wading bird (any of many long-legged birds that wade in water in search of food)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "button quail"):
striped button quail; Turnix sylvatica (a variety of button quail having stripes)
Holonyms ("button quail" is a member of...):
genus Turnix; Turnix (type genus of the Turnicidae: button quail)
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