Usually means: Large, long-billed wading bird.
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  1. curlew: Merriam-Webster
  2. curlew: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. curlew: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. curlew: Collins English Dictionary
  5. curlew: Vocabulary.com
  6. Curlew, curlew: Wordnik
  7. curlew: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. curlew: Wiktionary
  9. curlew: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. curlew: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. curlew: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Curlew, curlew: Dictionary.com
  13. curlew: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Curlew (band), Curlew (disambiguation), Curlew (steamboat), Curlew, The Curlew: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Curlew: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. curlew: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. curlew: Rhymezone
  18. Curlew: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. curlew: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. curlew: FreeDictionary.org
  21. curlew: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. curlew: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. curlew: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. curlew: Encyclopedia

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  1. Curlew: Urban Dictionary

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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.
▸ noun:  (Australia) A stone curlew.

Similar:
sabrebill, whimbrel, wimbrel, stone curlew, slender-billed curlew, mowyer, eastern curlew, whaup, curlew sandpiper, godwit, more...

Opposite:
loud, common, modern, artificial.

Types:
whimbrel, godwit, sanderling, peregrine, more...

Phrases:
Eskimo curlew, curlew sandpiper, stone curlew, curlew sandpipers, european curlew, more...

Adjectives:
thighed, hudsonian, common, young, brown, solitary, wild, white, spanish, large, small
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Similar:
sabrebill, whimbrel, wimbrel, stone curlew, slender-billed curlew, mowyer, eastern curlew, whaup, curlew sandpiper, godwit, more...

Opposite:
loud, common, modern, artificial.

Types:
whimbrel, godwit, sanderling, peregrine, more...

Phrases:
Eskimo curlew, curlew sandpiper, stone curlew, curlew sandpipers, european curlew, curlew jack, jack curlew, spanish curlew, bristle-thighed curlew, bristle thighed curlew, may curlew, half curlew, more...

Adjectives:
thighed, hudsonian, common, young, brown, solitary, wild, white, spanish, large, small



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