blue-breasted quail: Meaning and Definition of

blue'-breast•ed quail'

Pronunciation: (bl'bres"tid), [key]
  1. a small, brightly colored quail, Coturnix chinensis, of southern Asia and Australia, widely kept as a cage bird. Also called
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