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n. A common Eurasian bird (Crex crex) with a short bill and brownish-yellow plumage, found in grain fields and meadows.

n. 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.

n. A bird (Crex crex or Crex pratensis) which frequents grain fields; the European crake or land rail; -- called also corn bird.

n. A common European bird of the rail family (Rallidæ), the Crex pratensis, or land-rail: so called because it frequents corn-fields. See crake.

n. common Eurasian rail that frequents grain fields

"'Those birds are provided by God for man, but the corncrake is a wild bird of the woods: and not he alone; many they are, the wild things of the woods and the fields, and the wild things of the rivers and marshes and moors, flying on high or creeping below; and a sin it is to slay them: let them live their allotted life upon the earth."

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