A popular North American game bird; named for its call.
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Examples for "partridge"
Examples for "partridge"
1As it grew higher it hid the leverets and the partridge chicks.
2Yesterday I hunted; it was partridge I got, and one fine deer.
3So even Nanahboozhoo had to confirm the name of the little partridge.
4He specified the partridge by her cry, and the forest prowler by
5So we sat down and ate some more of the partridge raw.
1A bobwhite chirped its eternal question in the taut silence that followed.
2There were the bobwhite quail, beloved of hunters with retrievers and shotguns.
3Its song had only 2 notes (like the call of the bobwhite quail).
4Ruffed grouse rapidly disappearing; bobwhite becoming scarce.-(E.L. Ewbank, Hendersonville.)
5The 'bobwhite' is the funniest little bird.
1There were the bobwhite quail, beloved of hunters with retrievers and shotguns.
2Its song had only 2 notes (like the call of the bobwhite quail).
3Two bobwhite quail exploded out from behind one of the stumps and flew away through the trees on the opposite side.
Translations for bobwhite quail