quail

/kweyl/US // kweɪl //UK // (kweɪl) //

鹌鹑,鹌鹑的,畏缩,鹌鹁

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
plural quails, quail.
- : Also called true quail . any of numerous gallinaceous birds, order Galliformes, classified as either Old World quails, within the pheasant family, especially the genus Coturnix, or the distantly related New World quails, comprising their own family, including the genera Colinus,Callipepla, and Odontophorus: among the most familiar true quails are the Old World king quail and the New World bobwhite.
- : button quail.
- : Older Slang. a woman or girl.

verbcower, shrink

Synonyms

“We expected to find learning evidence in the songbirds but not in the quail and penguins,” Colombelli-Négrel says.
That’s because penguins and quail are “vocal nonlearners” — birds thought to have calls that are genetically programmed from birth and not learned from a tutor.
In other words, there’s a reason for this research being done and being done in this way that a photo of a quail snorting a line fails to capture.
The sound of birds, quail, even doe, make a wild grid of noise.
As a boy, he once said, he acquired the throwing skill that served him handsomely later by killing quail with rocks.
Deer, dove, and quail hunting is a right of passage in the Lone Star state.
Despite the lessons of the last four years, the banking sector in the U.K. is still too big to quail, let alone fail.
We both love chasing quail and hunting deer in our beloved Texas.
And the quail, perched on the fence-stake, would she address herself to us or to Mr. Robert White down in the meadow?
And he came a step still nearer; and now at last Mary began to dread, but still she did not quail.
A lugubrious quail doled forth a grating, dismal note at long but measured intervals, offending the ear and depressing the heart.

/kweyl/US // kweɪl //UK // (kweɪl) //

鹌鹑,鹌鹑的,畏缩,鹌鹁

n.名词 noun

1
plural quails, quail.
- : Also called true quail . any of numerous gallinaceous birds, order Galliformes, classified as either Old World quails, within the pheasant family, especially the genus Coturnix, or the distantly related New World quails, comprising their own family, including the genera Colinus,Callipepla, and Odontophorus: among the most familiar true quails are the Old World king quail and the New World bobwhite.
- : button quail.
- : Older Slang. a woman or girl.

verbcower, shrink

Synonyms

“We expected to find learning evidence in the songbirds but not in the quail and penguins,” Colombelli-Négrel says.
That’s because penguins and quail are “vocal nonlearners” — birds thought to have calls that are genetically programmed from birth and not learned from a tutor.
In other words, there’s a reason for this research being done and being done in this way that a photo of a quail snorting a line fails to capture.
The sound of birds, quail, even doe, make a wild grid of noise.
As a boy, he once said, he acquired the throwing skill that served him handsomely later by killing quail with rocks.
Deer, dove, and quail hunting is a right of passage in the Lone Star state.
Despite the lessons of the last four years, the banking sector in the U.K. is still too big to quail, let alone fail.
We both love chasing quail and hunting deer in our beloved Texas.
And the quail, perched on the fence-stake, would she address herself to us or to Mr. Robert White down in the meadow?
And he came a step still nearer; and now at last Mary began to dread, but still she did not quail.
A lugubrious quail doled forth a grating, dismal note at long but measured intervals, offending the ear and depressing the heart.