Porzana porzana
- noun
- Specialized
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Porzana porzana
- The distinctive call of the Porzana porzana can be heard at dusk in European reed beds.
Examples
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The Porzana porzana is rarely seen due to its secretive habits in dense wetland vegetation.
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Birdwatchers were excited to spot a Porzana porzana during their survey of the marsh.
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The Porzana porzana is often found in wetlands.
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Have you ever spotted a Porzana porzana in the marsh?
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Birdwatchers were excited to spot a Porzana porzana during their survey of the marsh.
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The Porzana porzana is rarely seen due to its secretive habits in dense wetland vegetation.
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The distinctive call of the Porzana porzana can be heard at dusk in European reed beds.
Synonyms
A small brown water bird with spots that lives in swamps and marshes
Surface Forms
Morphology
Both constituents are identical and explicitly defined as 'small birds known as spotted crakes', so the compound name directly denotes that bird. As a taxonomic binomial built from the constituent lexical item rather than an idiomatic phrase, its meaning is compositional and therefore immediately accessible to a learner who knows the constituent.
Etymology
Porzana porzana may come from an old local word porzana for small marsh rails. When that word was turned into a Latin name people repeated it, so the repeating name helps us remember this little marsh bird that hides in reeds, the 'spotted crake'.
