bustard quail

Questions about bustard quail

What does bustard quail mean?

bustard quail means "small quail-like terrestrial bird of southern Eurasia and northern Africa that lacks a hind toe; classified with wading birds but inhabits grassy plains".

What is another word for bustard quail?

Close synonyms include button quail, button-quail, hemipode. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bustard quail a common word?

bustard quail is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.