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Definition of curlew in English Turkish dictionary
- (Hayvan Bilim, Zooloji) kervan çulluğu
- kervançulluğu
- çulluk
- (isim) çulluk
- Numenius arquatus
- curlew sandpiper
- kızılbacak
- curlew sandpiper
- kızıl kumkuşu
- curlews
- çulluklarının
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English - English
Definition of curlew in English English dictionary
- Any of several migratory wading birds in the genus Numenius of the family Scolopacidae, remarkable for their long, slender, downcurved bills
- {n} a kind of water and land fowl
- A wading bird of the genus Numenius, remarkable for its long, slender, curved bill
- A curlew is a large brown bird with long legs and a long curved beak. Curlews live near water and have a very distinctive cry. a bird with long legs and a long beak that lives near water (corlieu, from the sound it makes). Any of eight species (genus Numenius) of shorebirds having a sickle-shaped bill that curves downward at the tip, a streaked, gray or brown body, and a long neck and legs. Curlews breed inland in temperate and subarctic regions of the Northern Hemisphere and migrate far south. They eat insects and seeds during migration but feed on worms and fiddler crabs while wintering on marshes and coastal mudflats. The eastern curlew is the largest species (24 in., or 60 cm, long); the common, or Eurasian, curlew, almost as large, is the largest European shorebird. The Eskimo curlew is now virtually extinct
- large migratory shorebirds of the sandpiper family; closely related to woodcocks but having a down-curved bill
- {i} long-billed wading bird
- curlew sandpiper
- A type of sandpiper, calidris ferruginea
- curlew sandpiper
- Old World sandpiper with a curved bill like a curlew
- curlew.
- whaup
- stone curlew
- Several species of large terrestrial birds in the family Burhinidae
- stone-curlew
- Alternative spelling of stone curlew
- A curlew
- sicklebill
- The curlew
- sabrebill
- The curlew
- saberbill
- The curlew
- whitterick
- curlews
- plural of curlew
- curlews
- numenius
- eskimo curlew
- New World curlew that breeds in northern North America
- european curlew
- common Eurasian curlew
- stone curlew
- large-headed large-eyed crepuscular or nocturnal shorebird of the Old World and tropical America having a thickened knee joint
- stone curlew
- wading bird having a thickened knee joint
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[ 'k&r-(")lü, 'k&rl ] (noun.) 14th century. Middle English, from Middle French corlieu, of imitative origin.Resimler
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