crake (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)

English > 1 sense of the word *crake*:
NOUN	animal	crake	any of several short-billed Old World rails

English > *crake*: 1 sense > noun 1, animal
Meaning	Any of several short-billed Old World rails.
Narrower	corncrake, land rail, Crex crex	Common Eurasian rail that frequents grain fields
Narrower	spotted crake, Porzana porzana	Eurasian rail of swamps and marshes
Broader	rail	Any of numerous widely distributed small wading birds of the family Rallidae having short wings and very long toes for running on soft mud
Spanish	crake, polluela
Catalan	crake

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