northern bobwhite

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   a favorite game bird of eastern and central United States

   SynonymsColinus virginianus

   Broaderbobwhite

Questions about northern bobwhite

What does northern bobwhite mean?

northern bobwhite means "a favorite game bird of eastern and central United States".

What is another word for northern bobwhite?

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

northern bobwhite 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.