Definition of European curlew

1. Noun. Common Eurasian curlew.

Exact synonyms: Numenius Arquata
Generic synonyms: Curlew

Lexicographical Neighbors of European Curlew

European box
European bream
European brooklime
European brown bat
European bullhead
European bullheads
European catfish
European chestnut
European corn borer
European country
European cranberry
European cranberry bush
European cranberrybush
European creeper
European cuckoo
European curlew (current term)
European dewberry
European dogtooth
European dragon
European dragons
European eel
European eels
European elder
European elk
European elm
European field elm
European fire salamander
European flatfish
European fly honeysuckle

Literary usage of European curlew

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Bulletin by Bureau of Biological Survey, United States (1907)
"... has been settled and cultivated, while its spring feeding grounds in Nebraska and South Dakota have been converted into farm land. [European curlew. ..."

2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"In North America three very easily recognized species aro found—the first (Ж longirostris) closely agreeing with tha European curlew, but larger and with a ..."

3. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"... longirostris) closely agreeing with the European curlew, but larger and with a longer bill; the second (X. hudsonicus) representing the British whimbrel ..."

4. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1829)
"The Ibis Albicollis or Tantalus Albicollis, is found in Cayenne, and is a little stronger than the European curlew. ..."

5. The Ibis by British Ornithologists' Union (1892)
"... from tin- European curlew, u hieb is sometimes doubted) is peculiar to Madagascar and rare. It live-* al mont always isolated among the other ..."

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