Usually means: Nocturnal bird with large eyes.
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  1. stone curlew: Merriam-Webster
  2. stone curlew: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. stone curlew: Collins English Dictionary
  4. stone curlew: Vocabulary.com
  5. stone curlew: Wordnik
  6. stone-curlew, stone curlew: Wiktionary
  7. stone curlew: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. stone curlew: Dictionary.com
  9. Stone-curlew, Stone curlew: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. stone curlew: Rhymezone
  11. stone curlew: FreeDictionary.org
  12. stone curlew: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. stone curlew: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Stone-curlew, stone curlew: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (stone curlew)

▸ noun:  Any of several species of large terrestrial birds in the family Burhinidae.

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thick-knee, burhinus oedicnemus, stone-curlew, burhinid, curlew, Eurasian stone-curlew, bush stone-curlew, great stone-curlew, sabrebill, stone plover, more...

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thick-knee, burhinus oedicnemus, stone-curlew, burhinid, curlew, Eurasian stone-curlew, bush stone-curlew, great stone-curlew, sabrebill, stone plover, more...



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