(复同单或quails)
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- a small short-tailed Old World game bird resembling a tiny partridge, typically having brown camouflaged plumage鹑, 鹌鹑。
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- Family Phasianidae: three genera, in particular Coturnix, and several species, e.g. the widespread migratory common quail (C. coturnix).雉科：3属, 尤指鹌鹑属, 数种, 如分布广泛的迁徙类西鹌鹑（拉丁名C. coturnix）。
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- a small or medium-sized New World game bird, the male of which has distinctive facial markings北美鹑。
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- Family Phasianidae (or Odontophoridae): several genera and many species, including the bobwhite.雉科（或齿鹑科）： 数属, 多种, 包括山齿鹑。
词源
Middle English: from Old French quaille, from medieval Latin coacula (probably imitative of its call).