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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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