button-quail

Questions about button-quail

What does button-quail mean?

button-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".

How many syllables are in button-quail?

button-quail has 4 syllables and divides as but-ton-q-ua-il under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for button-quail?

Close synonyms include button quail, bustard 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 button-quail a common word?

button-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.