old world quail

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   small game bird with a rounded body and small tail

   Broaderquail

   Narrowermigratory quail

   Part ofCoturnix

Questions about old world quail

What does old world quail mean?

old world quail means "small game bird with a rounded body and small tail".

Is old world quail a common word?

old world 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.