land rail

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   common Eurasian rail that frequents grain fields

   SynonymscorncrakeCrex crex

   Broadercrake

   Part ofCrex

Questions about land rail

What does land rail mean?

land rail means "common Eurasian rail that frequents grain fields".

What is another word for land rail?

Close synonyms include corncrake, Crex crex. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is land rail a common word?

land rail is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.