button-quail

Noun button-quail has 1 sense

• button-quail(n = noun.animal) bustard quail, button quail, hemipode - small quail-like terrestrial bird of southern Eurasia and northern Africa that lacks a hind toe; classified with wading birds but inhabits grassy plains; Array
is a kind of wader, wading bird
is a member of genus turnix, turnix
has particulars: striped button quail, turnix sylvatica