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n. Any of several brownish, long-legged shore birds of the genus Numenius, having long, slender, downward-curving bills.

n. Any of several migratory wading birds in the genus Numenius of the family Scolopacidae, remarkable for their long, slender, downcurved bills.

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

n. A bird of the genus Numenius.

n. A name of several grallatorial birds with slender decurved bill, not of the genus Numenius.

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

"Except these, the plover and the curlew are the only inhabitants until you come to the Chesterfield high road."

limicoline bird    shore bird    shorebird   

pygmy curlew    spanish curlew    curlew-sandpiper    stone curlew   

european curlew    numenius arquata    Eskimo curlew    numenius borealis   

Numenius arquata    Eastern Curlew    Numenius americanus    Numenius madagascariensis    Numenius tahitiensis    Numenius minutus    Numenius tenuirostris    Bristle-thighed Curlew    Slender-billed Curlew    Long-billed Curlew   

godwit    bittern    sandpiper    plover    tern    bustard    flamingo    heron    killdeer    widgeon