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nounheavy-bodied small-winged South American game bird resembling a gallinaceous bird but related to the ratite birds
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nouna popular North American game bird; named for its call
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nounvalued as a game bird in eastern United States and Canada
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nounflesh of either quail or grousetype of:
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nounsmall Old World gallinaceous game birdstype of:
Definition that contains partridge
- covey a small flock of grouse or partridge
- red-legged partridge common western European partridge with red legs
- madder family widely distributed family of mostly tropical trees and shrubs and herbs; includes coffee and chinchona and gardenia and madder and bedstraws and partridgeberry
- family phasianidae pheasants; quails; partridges
- perdicinae Old World partridges
- gray partridge common European partridge
- rubiaceae widely distributed family of mostly tropical trees and shrubs and herbs; includes coffee and chinchona and gardenia and madder and bedstraws and partridgeberry
- mountain partridge California partridge; slightly larger than the California quail
- order galliformes pheasants; turkeys; grouse; partridges; quails; chickens; brush turkeys; curassows; hoatzins
- family rubiaceae widely distributed family of mostly tropical trees and shrubs and herbs; includes coffee and chinchona and gardenia and madder and bedstraws and partridgeberry