colin

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

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 […]

• LOINC, Licon, Nicol, clino-, locin

colin

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

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.lɛ̃/

colin m (plural colins)

1. coalfish

   Synonym: lieu noir

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