| 单词 | buttonquail |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbuttonquail buttonquail n. any of the small quail-like birds constituting the family Turnicidae, found in warm grassland areas of the Old World, and having only three toes; also called hemipode. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Gruiformes > [noun] > member of family Turnicidae > genus Turnix (button-quail) Turnix1819 quail1848 buttonquail1854 hemipod1862 bush-quail1893 1854 J. J. Pemberton Geogr. & Statist. Rep. District of Maldah 5 Wild Birds.—Wild goose.., jay, quail, button quail, golden plover. 1893 A. Newton Dict. Birds Hemipode, a recognized English rendering of Temminck's generic name Hemipodius..for a small group of birds some of which Anglo-Indians often call ‘Bustard-Quails’ or ‘Button-Quails’. 1947 J. Stevenson-Hamilton Wild Life S. Afr. xxxii. 276 Button quail or riet kwartel (Turnicidæ).—Three species of Hemipodes, or button quail, exist in South Africa. 2009 Daily Tel. 18 Feb. 14/4 Hunters snared the Worcester's buttonquail (Turnix worcesteri) in the Caraballo mountains last month. < as lemmas |
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