CRAKE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Any of several short-billed Old World rails

Classified under:

Hypernyms ("crake" is a kind 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)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "crake"):

corncrake; Crex crex; land rail (common Eurasian rail that frequents grain fields)

Porzana porzana; spotted crake (Eurasian rail of swamps and marshes)