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 |
azure cerulean sapphire lazuline sky-blue | a light shade of blue |
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 |
Columba Dove | a constellation in the southern hemisphere near Puppis and Caelum |
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 |
Asiatic sweetleaf sapphire berry Symplocus paniculata | deciduous shrub of eastern Asia bearing decorative bright blue fruit |
sapphire | a transparent piece of sapphire that has been cut and polished and is valued as a precious gem |
water sapphire | a deep blue cordierite often used as a gemstone |
sapphire | a precious transparent stone of rich blue corundum valued as a gemstone |
star sapphire | a sapphire that when cut shows a starlike figure in reflected light because of its crystalline structure |
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 |
sapphire | of something having the color of a blue sapphire, sapphire eyes |