Common name for a type of bird.
A popular North American game bird; named for its call.
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Examples for "bobwhite "
Examples for "bobwhite "
1 A bobwhite chirped its eternal question in the taut silence that followed.
2 There were the bobwhite quail, beloved of hunters with retrievers and shotguns.
3 Its song had only 2 notes (like the call of the bobwhite quail).
4 Ruffed grouse rapidly disappearing; bobwhite becoming scarce.-(E.L. Ewbank, Hendersonville.)
5 The ' bobwhite ' is the funniest little bird.
1 There were the bobwhite quail , beloved of hunters with retrievers and shotguns.
2 Its song had only 2 notes (like the call of the bobwhite quail ) .
3 Two bobwhite quail exploded out from behind one of the stumps and flew away through the trees on the opposite side.
Valued as a game bird in eastern United States and Canada.
Heavy-bodied small-winged South American game bird resembling a gallinaceous bird but related to the ratite birds.
1 As it grew higher it hid the leverets and the partridge chicks.
2 Yesterday I hunted; it was partridge I got, and one fine deer.
3 So even Nanahboozhoo had to confirm the name of the little partridge .
4 He specified the partridge by her cry, and the forest prowler by
5 So we sat down and ate some more of the partridge raw.
6 Rose was like a plump partridge attracting the knife of a gourmet.
7 This evening, however, with the advent of the partridge she did speak.
8 A partridge or two whirred across the path from copse to meadow.
9 Who more delighted in striking down the partridge or the wild duck?
10 I was watching the goshawk on the partridge and heard you not.
11 You are going to have some little green oysters and a partridge .
12 Our supper consisted of tripe de roche and half a partridge each.
13 There is likewise a small-sized partridge , which is improperly called the quail.
14 It is exactly like a small partridge , and is most excellent eating.
15 Wait and see what a fool he is compared with a mother - partridge .
16 I am going down to my friends, the Brambers, for partridge shooting.
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