colin

See also: Colin, colîn, and çolin

English

Etymology

From 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 […]

Anagrams

• LOINC, Licon, Nicol, clino-, locin

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈkɔ.lin]

Verb

colin

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

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.lɛ̃/

Noun

colin m (plural colins)

1. Several different fish: pollock 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

Further reading

• “colin”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.