colinus virginianus

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   a favorite game bird of eastern and central United States

   Synonymsnorthern bobwhite

   Broaderbobwhite

Questions about colinus virginianus

What does colinus virginianus mean?

colinus virginianus means "a favorite game bird of eastern and central United States".

What is another word for colinus virginianus?

Close synonyms include northern bobwhite. 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 colinus virginianus a common word?

colinus virginianus 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.