noun
small quail-like terrestrial bird of southern Eurasia and northern Africa that lacks a hind toe; classified with wading birds but inhabits grassy plains
• Syn: ↑button quail, ↑button-quail, ↑bustard quail
• Hypernyms: ↑wading bird, ↑wader
• Hyponyms: ↑striped button quail, ↑Turnix sylvatica
• Member Holonyms: ↑Turnix, ↑genus Turnix
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—hemipodan /heuh mip"euh dn/, adj.
/hem"i pohd'/, n.
See button quail.
[1860-65; < NL Hemipodius name of the genus < Gk hemipod- (s. of hemípous) half-foot. See HEMI-, -POD]
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hemˈipode noun
(Gr pous, podos foot) the button quail
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Main Entry: ↑hemi-
Useful english dictionary. 2012.