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corn-crake

corn-crake is the alternative form of corncrake.

Meaning of corncrake

Noun

corncrake (plural corncrakes)

  1. 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.
    Synonyms:
    bean-crake, landrail

Forms of corn-crake

pluralcorn-crakes

Questions about corn-crake

What is corn-crake the alternative form of?
Corn-crake is the alternative form of corncrake.

Words near corn-crake in the dictionary

  1. corn-cob
  2. corn-cobs
  3. corn-cracker
  4. Corn-cracker State
  5. corn-crackers
  6. corn-crake
  7. corn-crakes
  8. corn-dodger
  9. corn-dodgers
  10. corn-factor
  11. corn-factors

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Adapted from Wiktionary: corn-crake (page history and authors); corncrake (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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