0 a small, brown bird that is shot for sport or food, or the meat of this bird: --
Quails' eggs are considered to be a delicacy.
1 to feel or show fear; to want to be able to move away from something because you fear it: --
2 a small brown bird with a short tail, sometimes hunted as a sport and eaten as a food --
Long-range competition among the neurons projecting centrifugally to the quail retina.
Eurasian quails, turtles, goldfish, toads, and beetles help keep the insect population in balance.
The brown quail's wings produce a whistling noise when flushed which is different from the whirring sound produced by the stubble quail's wings.
All that submission and apparent content lasted but a few days, and they disappeared like young quails.
The long delay between pairing and nesting is unusual for quails.
They never quailed at their tasks.
The consumption of quails' eggs—though by a minority—is very considerable.
Quails might escape from a farm but, we understand, would not be able to survive outside it.
