landrail

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the corncrake, a migratory Eurasian rail that lives mainly in meadows and fields

   At dusk, the rasping call of a landrail came from the long grass.

A compound of land + rail, distinguishing the meadow-dwelling corncrake from rails associated more visibly with marshes and water. The bird is now more commonly called the corncrake.

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