Quelea

Today I was watching a recording of my favorite television show Ed. In episode 52 "Trapped," Phil and Eli are playing Scrabble when Phil uses the word quelea and Eli questions if it is a real word. I took it upon myself to determine if this was in fact a real word. According to the American Heritage Dictionary, quelea is in fact a real word.

Quelea is "an African weaverbird of the genus Quelea, especially Q. quelea, a small red-billed bird that is destructive to grain crops." Quelea originally came from Vulgar Latin coacula, a word of imitative origin. From there, the genus name Quelea came from New Latin, an adaptation of the Medieval Latin word qualea meaning quail.

Source: American Heritage Dictionary 4th Edition, image from http://www.kenyabirds.org.uk/quelea.htm