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crake

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crake: see rail rail, common name for some members of the large family Rallidae, marsh and tropical forest birds that include the gallinule and the coot, two specialized rails. Rails are cosmopolitan in distribution, except in polar regions.
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crake
Zoology any of several rails that occur in the Old World, such as the corncrake and the spotted crake


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