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All curlew synonyms

cur·lew
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noun curlew

  • grouse — any of numerous gallinaceous birds of the subfamily Tetraoninae. Compare black grouse, capercaillie, ruffed grouse, spruce grouse.
  • quail — a small, migratory, gallinaceous game bird, Coturnix coturnix, of the Old World.
  • partridge — any of several Old World gallinaceous game birds of the subfamily Perdicinae, especially Perdix perdix.
  • pheasant — any of numerous large, usually long-tailed, Old World gallinaceous birds of the family Phasianidae, widely introduced.
  • plover — any of various shorebirds of the family Charadriidae. Compare dotterel (def 1), killdeer, lapwing.
  • sandpiper — any of numerous shore-inhabiting birds of the family Scolopacidae, related to the plovers, typically having a slender bill and a piping call.
  • snipe — any of several long-billed game birds of the genera Gallinago (Capella) and Limnocryptes, inhabiting marshy areas, as G. gallinago (common snipe) of Eurasia and North America, having barred and striped white, brown, and black plumage.
  • wild turkey — the ancestral species of the domesticated turkey. Compare turkey (def 1).
  • wildfowl — a game bird, especially a wild duck, goose, or swan.
  • woodcock — either of two plump, short-legged migratory game birds of variegated brown plumage, the Eurasian Scolopax rusticola and the smaller American Philohela minor.
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