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a short-billed Eurasian rail, Crex crex, frequenting grainfields. Also called land rail.

[1545-55]

corn crake,

a bird of the same family as the rail, common in meadows and grainfields in Europe.

(also corncrake) n. a secretive Eurasian crake inhabiting coarse grasslands, with mainly brown streaked plumage and a distinctive double rasping call. Also called land rail. ● Crex crex, family Rallidae