quail
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- n flesh of quail; suitable for roasting or broiling if young; otherwise must be braised
- n small gallinaceous game birds
- v draw back, as with fear or pain
- Observant biologists have long known that among such game birds as quail, partridge, pheasant and grouse, all the eggs in a nest tend to hatch at about the same timeeven though.
- Riding easily behind far-ranging dogs in a mellow Alabama quail meadow, the mixed gallery of millionaires in fancy dress and farmers in ripped dungarees seemed remarkably lenient.
- Anyone who balks at the appalling markups that posh restaurateurs impose on game birds should visit the quail hawkers of Ho Chi Minh City.