partridge

Noun

• valued as a game bird in eastern United States and Canada

• a popular North American game bird; named for its call

• small Old World gallinaceous game birds

• heavy-bodied small-winged South American game bird resembling a gallinaceous bird but related to the ratite birds

• flesh of either quail or grouse

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  ruffed grouse , Bonasa umbellus , bobwhite , bobwhite quail , tinamou