Definition of Crex crex

1. Noun. Common Eurasian rail that frequents grain fields.

Exact synonyms: Corncrake, Land Rail
Generic synonyms: Crake
Group relationships: Crex, Genus Crex

Lexicographical Neighbors of Crex Crex

Crepis
Crescentia
Crescentia cujete
Cretacean
Cretaceans
Cretaceous
Cretaceous period
Cretacious
Cretan
Crete
Creuse
Creutzfeld Jacob disease
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
Crewe
Crex
Crex crex
Cricetidae
Cricetinae
Cricetus
Cricetus cricetus
Crichton
Crichton-Browne
Crichton-Browne's sign
Crick
Crigan
Crigler
Crigler-Najjar disease
Crigler-Najjar syndrome
Crile
Crile's clamp

Literary usage of Crex crex

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Hand-book to the Birds of Great Britain by Richard Bowdler Sharpe (1897)
"Type, crex crex (Linn.). All the Crakes have much shorter and stouter bills than the true Rails, ... crex crex. Rallus crex, Linn. Syst. Nat. ip 261 (1766). ..."

2. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1896)
"Brock reports a specimen of the European Corn Crake (crex crex) killed by John ... The bird is an unquestionable crex crex in extremely fine plumage and of ..."

3. The Natural History of Selborne by Gilbert White (1868)
"... of Christian Mallord, in North Wilts, and in the meadows near Paradise Gardens at Oxford, where 1 have often heard them cry crex, crex. ..."

4. The Writings of John Burroughs by John Burroughs (1895)
""Crex, crex, crex," came the harsh note out of the grass, like the rasping sound of some large insect, and I knew the bird at once. ..."

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