Curlew

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  • noun. Any of several brownish, long-legged shorebirds of the genus Numenius, having long, slender, downward-curving bills.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A bird of the genus Numenius.
  • noun. A name of several grallatorial birds with slender decurved bill, not of the genus Numenius.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A wading bird of the genus Numenius, remarkable for its long, slender, curved bill.
  • noun. the whimbrel or lesser curlew.
  • noun. a sandpiper (Tringa ferruginea or Tringa subarquata), common in Europe, rare in America, resembling a curlew in having a long, curved bill. See Illustation in Appendix.
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  • noun. Any of several migratory wading birds in the genus Numenius of the family Scolopacidae, remarkable for their long, slender, downcurved bills.
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  • noun. large migratory shorebirds of the sandpiper family; closely related to woodcocks but having a down-curved bill
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    limicoline bird  shore bird  shorebird  
    Hyponym
    Words that are more specific
    Eskimo curlew  european curlew  numenius arquata  numenius borealis  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    bittern  bustard  egret  egrets  flamingo  
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