Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun button-quail

1 sense of button-quail

Sense 1
button quail, button-quail, bustard quail, hemipode -- (small quail-like terrestrial bird of southern Eurasia and northern Africa that lacks a hind toe; classified with wading birds but inhabits grassy plains)
       => wading bird, wader -- (any of many long-legged birds that wade in water in search of food)