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Webster 1913 Edition

Corncrake

Corn′crakeˊ

(kôrn′krākˊ)

,

Noun.

(Zool.)

A bird (

Crex crex

or

Crex pratensis

) which frequents grain fields; the European crake or land rail; – called also

corn bird

.

Definition 2024

corncrake

corncrake

See also: corn-crake and corn crake

English

Alternative forms

Noun

corn crake ‎(plural corncrakes)

A bird of the rail family, Crex crex, that breeds in meadows and arable farmland across Europe and western Asia, migrating to Africa in winter.

Translations

the bird Crex crex

Bulgarian: дърдавец m ‎(dǎrdavec)
Czech: chřástal polní (cs) m
Danish: engsnarre (da) c
Estonian: rukkirääk (et)
Faroese: akurskritt n
Finnish: ruisrääkkä (fi)
French: râle des genêts (fr) m
German: Wachtelkönig (de) m, Wiesenralle f, (obsolete) Wiesenknarre f
Norman: râle dé g'nêt f
Latvian: grieze f

Lithuanian: griežlė (lt) f
Portuguese: codornizão m
Romanian: cristei (ro) m
Russian: дергач (ru) m ‎(dergač) /d'ergáč/, коростель (ru) m ‎(korostelʹ) /korost'él'/
Southern Altai: талтар ‎(taltar)
Spanish: guión de codornices m
Swedish: kornknarr (sv) c
Volapük: (♂♀) kräg, (♂♀) hikräg, (♀) jikräg, (♂♀ offspring) krägül, (♂ offspring) hikrägül, (♀ offspring) jikrägül