Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

okinawa rail

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.17 in modern English

Syllables: ok-i-nawa rail
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A species of rail, Gallirallus okinawae, endemic to Okinawa Island in Japan.

Example Sentences

"The Japanese Archipelago, fringing the eastern edge of Asia, has a rich avifauna, including what is probably the rarest bird in the world - the Toki or Japanese Crested Ibis, and one of the most recently discovered birds - the Okinawa Rail."

Inflected Forms

Okinawa rails (plural)

Questions

What does okinawa rail mean?: A species of rail, Gallirallus okinawae, endemic to Okinawa Island in Japan.

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