1. small Australian bird related to the button quail; classified as wading bird but inhabits plains; [syn: plain wanderer, Pedionomus torquatus]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
plain wanderer
n 1: small Australian bird related to the button quail;
classified as wading bird but inhabits plains [syn: plain
wanderer, Pedionomus torquatus]