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 |
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 |
quail | flesh of quail, suitable for roasting or broiling if young, otherwise must be braised |
quail bush quail brush white thistle Atriplex lentiformis | spiny shrub with silvery-scurfy foliage of alkaline plains of southwestern United States and Mexico |
elegant Habenaria Habenaria elegans | slender inland rein orchid similar to coastal rein orchid but with pale greenish-yellow flowers |
elegant brodiaea Brodiaea elegans | brodiaea having an umbel of violet or blue-violet flowers atop a leafless stalk, northern Oregon to southern California |
star tulip elegant cat's ears Calochortus elegans | small plant with slender bent stems bearing branched clusters of a few white star-shaped flowers with petals shaped like cat's ears, southeastern Washington and northeastern Oregon to Montana |
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 |
elegant | refined and tasteful in appearance or behavior or style, elegant handwriting, an elegant dark suit, she was elegant to her fingertips, small churches with elegant white spires, an elegant mathematical solution--simple and precise and lucid |
elegant | displaying effortless beauty and simplicity in movement or execution, an elegant dancer, an elegant mathematical solution -- simple and precise |
elegant graceful refined | suggesting taste, ease, and wealth |