See also: Colin, colîn, and çolin

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Etymology

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

Noun

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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

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colin

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

French

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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

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