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crake

DEFINITIONS OF: crake

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n any of several short-billed Old World rails

Types:
Crex crex, corncrake, land rail
common Eurasian rail that frequents grain fields
Porzana porzana, spotted crake
Eurasian rail of swamps and marshes
Type of:
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
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