New World quail

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New World quail (usually uncountable, plural New World quails)

  1. Any bird in the New World family Odontophoridae (which also includes the African genus Ptilopachus), resembling but not closely related to the Old World quails (which belong to the family Phasianidae).
    Synonym: odontophorid
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