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   Quail

   /kwāl/

   

   noun

   • 1. a small, short-tailed Old World game bird resembling a small partridge, typically having brown camouflaged plumage.
   • 2. a small or medium-sized New World game bird, the male of which has distinctive facial markings.

   Word Origin Middle English: from Old French quaille, from medieval Latin coacula (probably imitative of its call).

   Scrabble Points: 14

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