Partridge
WordNet
noun
(1) Valued as a game bird in eastern United States and Canada
(2) A popular North American game bird; named for its call
(3) Small Old World gallinaceous game birds
(4) Heavy-bodied small-winged South American game bird resembling a gallinaceous bird but related to the ratite birds
(5) Flesh of either quail or grouse
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Noun
- Any bird of a number of genera in the family Phasianidae, notably in the genera Perdix and Alectoris.