raillike
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Adjective[edit]
raillike (comparative more raillike, superlative most raillike)
- Resembling or characteristic of a rail (the bird).
- 1926, Arthur Cleveland Bent, Life Histories of North American Birds: Marsh Birds, page 336:
- This is the only long flight I have seen and it reminded me of the flight of a water ouzel. The other two flights I have seen were short and raillike.