curlew

[cur·lew]

Large migratory shorebirds of the sandpiper family; closely related to woodcocks but having a down curved bill

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A wading bird of the genus Numenius, remarkable for its long, slender, curved bill.

Noun
large migratory shorebirds of the sandpiper family; closely related to woodcocks but having a down-curved bill

n.
A wading bird of the genus Numenius, remarkable for its long, slender, curved bill.

Curlew

Cur"lew (k?r"l?), n. [F. courlieu, corlieu, courlis; perh. of imitative origin, but cf. OF. corlieus courier; L. currere to run + levis light.] (Zo'94l.) A wading bird of the genus Numenius, remarkable for its long, slender, curved bill. &hand; The common European curlew is N. arquatus. The long-billed (N. longirostris), the Hudsonian (N. Hudsonicus), and the Eskimo curlew (N. borealis, are American species. The name is said to imitate the note of the European species. Curlew Jack (Zo'94l.) the whimbrel or lesser curlew. -- Curlew sandpiper (Zo'94l.), a sandpiper (Tringa ferruginea, ∨ subarquata), common in Europe, rare in America, resembling a curlew in having a long, curved bill. See Illustation in Appendix.

A wading bird of the genus Numenius, remarkable for its long, slender, curved bill.

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