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".

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.