colin
English
Noun
colin (plural colins)
- The American quail or bobwhite, or related species.
- 1859, Samuel Griswold Goodrich, Illustrated natural history of the animal kingdom (volume 2, page 244)
- To this belongs the Colin or Quail of New England and Partridge of the South […]
- 1923, Thomas Alfred Coward, Bird haunts and nature memories (page 206)
- Many efforts have been made to improve and increase the variety of our game stock, but whereas the Barbary partridge, the willow grouse, the colin, bob-white, button quail, and even tinamou have been tried and failed […]
- 1859, Samuel Griswold Goodrich, Illustrated natural history of the animal kingdom (volume 2, page 244)
Catalan
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɔ.lɛ̃/
Synonyms
Further reading
- “colin” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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