different between quail vs phasianid

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kwe?l/
• Rhymes: -e?l

Etymology 1

From Middle English quaylen, from Middle Dutch queilen, qu?len, from Old Dutch *quelan, from Proto-West Germanic *kwelan, from Proto-Germanic *kwelan? (“to suffer”). Doublet of queal.

Alternative forms

• quele (obsolete)
• queal (obsolete)

Verb

quail (third-person singular simple present quails, present participle quailing, simple past and past participle quailed)

1. (intransitive) To waste away; to fade, to wither [from 15th c.]
2. (transitive, now rare) To daunt or frighten (someone) [from 16th c.]
   • 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia: or, Buried Alive: A Novel, London; Boston, Mass.: Faber and Faber, ?ISBN; republished in The Avignon Quintet, London: Faber, published 1992, ?ISBN, page 358:

     To tell the truth the prospect rather quailed him – wandering about in the gloomy corridors of a nunnery.

3. (intransitive) To lose heart or courage; to be daunted or fearful. [from 16th c.]
4. (intransitive) Of courage, faith, etc.: to slacken, to give way. [from 16th c.]

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English quayle, quaile, quaille, from Anglo-Norman quaille, from Late Latin quaccola (“quail”).

Noun

quail (plural quails or quail)

1. Any of various small game birds of the genera Coturnix, Anurophasis or Perdicula in the Old World family Phasianidae or of the New World family Odontophoridae.
   • 1954, Wildlife Review (issues 75-83, page 44)

     Quail require little water, so there is no point to putting in a guzzler if there is any permanent water within travel range.

2. (uncountable) The meat from this bird eaten as food.
3. (obsolete) A prostitute, so called because the quail was thought to be a very amorous bird.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• partridge

Etymology 3

From Middle English quaylen, qwaylen, from Old French coaillier, from Latin co?gul?re. Doublet of coagulate.

Verb

quail (third-person singular simple present quails, present participle quailing, simple past and past participle quailed)

1. (obsolete) To curdle or coagulate, as milk does.

Anagrams

• quali

English

Etymology

New Latin phasianida from Latin phasianus (“pheasant”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?fe???n?d/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?fe???n?d/

Adjective

phasianid (comparative more phasianid, superlative most phasianid)

1. Of or relating to semiflightless, gallinaceous game birds, such as pheasants, quails, peafowl, junglefowl, and guinea fowl.

   The chukar, a bird of the phasianid family, is distributed in Israel across a sharp climatic cline from Mediterranean regions in the north to extremely arid areas only ~200 km away in the Negev Desert.

2. Specifically, belonging to the zoologic family Phasianidae, or associated with species falling under that taxonomic hierarchy.

   The megapode is viewed as a ‘specialised’ galliform, having extended the phasianid incubation period and producing superprecocial hatchlings that have developed in the egg for a further four weeks.

Synonyms

• (belonging to the Phasianidae): phasianous

Noun

phasianid (plural phasianids)

1. Any semiflightless, gallinaceous game bird.

   It is a medium-sized phasianid: males can weight even 600 grams and are bigger than the females. Moreover, unlike the females, they have ergots on the claws.

   Typical of many phasianid birds, guinea fowl are capable runners that have strong burst-flight capacities but little endurance in flight.

Translations

Anagrams

• aphaniids, aphidians