| 单词 | painted button-quail |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspainted button-quail painted quail n. any of various quails and similar birds with mottled plumage; esp. (a) (more fully Chinese painted quail) the blue quail, Coturnix chinensis, of Africa, South and South-East Asia, and Australia; (b) (more fully painted button-quail) an Australasian button-quail, Turnix varia. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Phasianidae (pheasants, etc.) > [noun] > genus Phasianus > phasianus gallus (silk fowl) silk cock1783 silk fowl1835 painted quail1848 silky1850 1848 J. Gould Birds Austral. V. Pl. 82 Hemipodius varius..Painted Quail, Colonists of Van Diemen's Land and Swan River. 1895 W. R. O. Grant in R. Lydekker Royal Nat. Hist. IV. 416 The common painted quail (Excalfactoria chinensis) inhabits the Indo-Chinese countries, especially the lower hills. 1966 P. Slater & E. Lindgren Wildlife W. Austral. 8 A bird of the open woodland, the Painted Quail favours Wandoo forest. 2002 Times (Nexis) 30 Mar. (Features) More astonishing were the Chinese painted quail... These are the smallest game birds in the world: when fully grown they are only as big as a sparrow. < as lemmas |
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