'Quails' definitions:
Definition of 'quails'
From: GCIDE
- Turnix \Tur"nix\, n. [NL., fr. L. coturnix a quail.] (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of birds belonging to Turnix or Hemipodius and allied genera of the family Turnicidae. These birds resemble quails and partridges in general appearance and in some of their habits, but differ in important anatomical characteristics. The hind toe is usually lacking. They are found in Asia, Africa, Southern Europe, the East Indian Islands, and esp. in Australia and adjacent islands, where they are called quails (see Quail, n., 3.). See Turnicimorphae. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Quails'
From: Easton
- Quails The Israelites were twice relieved in their privation by a miraculous supply of quails, (1) in the wilderness of Sin (Ex. 16:13), and (2) again at Kibroth-hattaavah (q.v.), Num. 11:31. God "rained flesh upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea" (Ps. 78:27). The words in Num. 11:31, according to the Authorized Version, appear to denote that the quails lay one above another to the thickness of two cubits above the ground. The Revised Version, however, reads, "about two cubits above the face of the earth", i.e., the quails flew at this height, and were easily killed or caught by the hand. Being thus secured in vast numbers by the people, they "spread them all abroad" (11:32) in order to salt and dry them.
- These birds (the Coturnix vulgaris of naturalists) are found in countless numbers on the shores of the Mediterranean, and their annual migration is an event causing great excitement.
Words containing 'Quails'
- Quail,
- quail at,
- Bustard quail,
- Button quail,
- Marsh quail,
- Maryland quail,
- Mountain quail,
- Quail Valley,
- Quail call,
- Quail dove,
- Quail hawk,
- Quail pipe,
- Quail snipe,
- Quail, TX,
- Rain quail,
- Sea quail,
- Virginia quail,
- Wood quail,
- bobwhite quail,
- california quail,
- migratory quail,
- quail brush,
- quail bush,
- Quail Valley, CA,
- button-quail,
- old world quail,
- striped button quail