colin

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See also: Colin, colîn, and çolin

English

Etymology

French colin, properly a diminutive of Colas, contracted from Nicolas (“Nicholas”).

Noun

colin (plural colins)

  1. The American quail or bobwhite, or related species.
    • 1859, Samuel Griswold Goodrich, Illustrated natural history of the animal kingdom, volume 2, page 244:
      To this belongs the Colin or Quail of New England and Partridge of the South […]
    • 1923, Thomas Alfred Coward, Bird haunts and nature memories, page 206:
      Many efforts have been made to improve and increase the variety of our game stock, but whereas the Barbary partridge, the willow grouse, the colin, bob-white, button quail, and even tinamou have been tried and failed […]

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Verb

colin

  1. inflection of colar:
    1. third-person plural present subjunctive
    2. third-person plural imperative

French

Pronunciation

Noun

colin m (plural colins)

  1. Several different fish: pollack or European pollock, saithe or coalfish, hake
  2. Several other species, when modified: colin d'Alaska, colin de Noruega, colin noir, colin antarctique, colin de Kerguelen

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