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corncrake

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corn·crake  (kôrnkrk)
n.
A common Eurasian bird (Crex crex) with a short bill and brownish-yellow plumage, found in grain fields and meadows.
corncrake [ˈkɔːnˌkreɪk]
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) a common Eurasian rail, Crex crex, of fields and meadows, with a buff speckled plumage and reddish wings
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Noun1.corncrake - common Eurasian rail that frequents grain fields
Crex crex, land rail
crake - any of several short-billed Old World rails
Crex, genus Crex - corncrakes
Translations
corncrake [ˈkɔːnkreɪk] N → guión m de codornices


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Silent, like sorrowing children, the birds have ceased their song, and only the moorhen's plaintive cry and the harsh croak of the corncrake stirs the awed hush around the couch of waters, where the dying day breathes out her last.
Three Men In A Boat (To Say Nothing Of The Dog) by Jerome, Jerome K. View in context
Hence it will cause him no surprise that there should be geese and frigate-birds with webbed feet, either living on the dry land or most rarely alighting on the water; that there should be long-toed corncrakes living in meadows instead of in swamps; that there should be woodpeckers where not a tree grows; that there should be diving thrushes, and petrels with the habits of auks.
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