1) American jazz ensemble 2) Any of various similar birds 3) Bird of the Everglades 4) British water bird 5) Cousin of the sandpiper 6) French word used in English 7) Limicoline bird 8) Sandpiper 9) Sandpiper kin 10) Shore bird 11) Shorebird 12) Snipe relative 13) Wading bird 14) Whimbrel
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The curlews z, genus Numenius, are a group of eight species of birds, characterised by long, slender, downcurved bills and mottled brown plumage. They are one of the most ancient lineages of scolopacid waders, together with the godwits which look similar but have straight bills. In Europe `curlew` usually refers to one species, the Eurasian Curl.....
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long-legged migratory bird with downward-curving bill
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• (n.) A wading bird of the genus Numenius, remarkable for its long, slender, curved bill.
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any of numerous medium-sized or large shorebirds belonging to the genus Numenius (family Scolopacidae) and having a bill that is decurved, or ...
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Cur'lew (kûr'lū)
noun [ French
courlieu ,
corlieu ,
courlis ; perhaps of imitative origin, but confer Old French
corlieus courier; Latin
currere to run +
levis light.]
(Zoology) A wading bird of the genus
Numenius , remarkable for its l...
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The Curlew (Numenius) is a genus of birds belonging to the order Grallatores, or Waders, and of the same family (Scolopacidae) as the snipe and woodcock. The genus is characterized by a very long, slender, and arcuated bill, tall and partly naked legs, and a short somewhat rounded tail. The bill is more or less covered with a soft sensitive skin by...
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HMS Curlew was a British former Ceres Class cruiser of 4290 tons displacement launched in 1917, converted in 1936 into an anti-aircraft cruiser by having her 6-inch guns replaced with 4-inch guns and machine guns, the foremast cut down and a large control top (known popularly as the 'bird bath') fitted. HMS Curlew was armed with ten 4-inch anti-air...
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n] - large migratory shorebirds of the sandpiper family
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noun large migratory shorebirds of the sandpiper family; closely related to woodcocks but having a down-curved bill
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Wading bird of the genus
Numenius of the sandpiper family, Scolopacidae, order Charadriiformes. The curlew is between 36 cm/14 in and 55 cm/1.8 ft long, and has pale brown plumage with dark bars and mainly white underparts, long legs, and a long, thin, downcurved bill. It feeds on a variety of insects and other invertebra...
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any of several shorebirds of the genus Numenius, having a long, slender, downcurved bill, as the common N. arquata, of Europe. · any of various similar birds.
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