colin
English edit
Etymology edit
French colin, properly a diminutive of Colas, contracted from Nicolas (“Nicholas”).
Noun edit
colin (plural colins)
- 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 edit
colin
- inflection of colar:
French edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
colin m (plural colins)
- Several different fish: pollack or European pollock, saithe or coalfish, hake
- Several other species, when modified: colin d'Alaska, colin de Noruega, colin noir, colin antarctique, colin de Kerguelen
Further reading edit
- “colin”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.