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Coturnix
noun
Old World quail
• Syn: ↑genus Coturnix
• Hypernyms: ↑bird genus
• Member Holonyms: ↑Phasianidae, ↑family Phasianidae
• Member Meronyms: ↑Old World quail

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\\kəˈtərniks\ noun
Usage: capitalized
Etymology: New Latin, from Latin, quail
: a genus of birds (family Phasianidae) containing the common European and other Old World quails

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/keuh terr"niks/, n.
any of several small Old World quails of the genus Coturnix, esp. C. japonica (Japanese quail), widely used as a laboratory animal.
[1758; NL; L coturnix, coturnix quail]

Useful english dictionary. 2012.