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Type of quail
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bobwhite
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Word definitions for bobwhite in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a popular North American game bird; named for its call [syn: bobwhite quail , partridge ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. Any one of four species of quail in the genus ''Colinus'', of the bird family Odontophoridae, limited to the Americas.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
North American partridge, 1819, so called from the sound of its cry.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bobwhite \Bob"white`\, n. (Zo["o]l.) The common quail of North America ( Colinus, or Ortyx, Virginianus ); -- so called from its note.
Usage examples of bobwhite.
Florida black bear, bobwhite quail, red-cockaded woodpecker, and more.
The bobwhite whistling had attracted a genuine bobwhite which had perched in a tall tree and was calling out insultingly.
Outside in the dark a bobwhite called and waited for an answer and then called again, and a small wind rose and there was a momentary rain that rattled the leaves and the roof shakes and then it stopped.
She waved good-by to the family from the terrace, and in a little while she heard a bobwhite call from the woods behind the garage.
He took cover in a stand of dogwood and gave a sharp call, like a bobwhite quail.
I would take the two notes of a bobwhite in the darkness and make that the start of a song.
Nate and Seth huddled together, both engrossed in the bobwhite quail that Seth painstakingly carved.
A pair of early-morning bobwhites were calling across the grass in the meadow.
American quail - I believe you call them bobwhites - are very beautiful.
A pair of bobwhites called their identical three-word messages back and forth from the field to the woods.
It seemed to him terribly unfair that he should be trapped by his heavy limbs when even the silliest birds, the bobwhites and the flickers, could do so easily what he could not.
Squirrels chattered an alarm, a pair of bobwhites exploded into flight at my feet, and, from further up the ridge, a dog greeted me with sharp, welcoming barks.