bobwhite
bobwhite quail
partridge | a popular North American game bird, named for its call |
| Old World quail | small game bird with a rounded body and small tail |
migratory quail
Coturnix coturnix
Coturnix communis | the typical Old World quail |
| quail | small gallinaceous game birds |
California quail
Lofortyx californicus | plump chunky bird of coastal California and Oregon |
mountain quail
mountain partridge
Oreortyx picta palmeri | California partridge, slightly larger than the California quail |
| dove | any of numerous small pigeons |
rock dove
rock pigeon
Columba livia | pale grey Eurasian pigeon having black-striped wings from which most domestic species are descended |
mourning dove
Zenaidura macroura | wild dove of the United States having a mournful call |
button quail
button-quail
bustard quail
hemipode | small quail-like terrestrial bird of southern Eurasia and northern Africa that lacks a hind toe, classified with wading birds but inhabits grassy plains |
striped button quail
Turnix sylvatica | a variety of button quail having stripes |
| rib costa | any of the pairs of curved arches of bone extending from the spine to or toward the sternum in humans (and similar bones in most vertebrates) |
| costa | a riblike part of a plant or animal (such as a middle rib of a leaf or a thickened vein of an insect wing) |
| dove | an emblem of peace |
squab
dove | flesh of a pigeon suitable for roasting or braising, flesh of a dove (young squab) may be broiled |
| quail | flesh of quail, suitable for roasting or broiling if young, otherwise must be braised |
Costa Rica
Republic of Costa Rica | a republic in Central America, one of the most politically stable countries in Latin America |
San Jose
capital of Costa Rica | the capital and largest city of Costa Rica |
Columba
Dove | a constellation in the southern hemisphere near Puppis and Caelum |
| Costa Rican | a native or inhabitant of Costa Rica |
dove
peacenik | someone who prefers negotiations to armed conflict in the conduct of foreign relations |
quail bush
quail brush
white thistle Atriplex lentiformis | spiny shrub with silvery-scurfy foliage of alkaline plains of southwestern United States and Mexico |
dove's foot geranium
Geranium molle | western geranium with small pink flowers, a common weed on lawns and in vacant lots |
| Costa Rican monetary unit | monetary unit in Costa Rica |
colon
Costa Rican colon | the basic unit of money in Costa Rica, equal to centimos |
apprehend
quail at | anticipate with dread or anxiety |
flinch
squinch
funk
cringe shrink
wince
recoil
quail | draw back, as with fear or pain, she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf |
| Costa Rican | of or relating to Costa Rica or its people, the Costa Rican rain forest, our Costa Rican neighbors |