whimbrel
/ˈwɪmbr(ə)l
/noun
A small migratory curlew of northern Eurasia and northern Canada, with a striped crown and a trilling call.
- Numenius phaeopus, family Scolopacidae.
- Other prominent shorebirds are the whimbrels and godwits.
- Spotted redshank share their forest-marsh nesting grounds with wood sandpipers, greenshank, whimbrel, jack snipe and broad-billed sandpipers.
Origin
Mid 16th century: from whimper or synonymous dialect whimp (imitative of the bird's call) + -rel.
Rhymes
- manipulable
- manipulandum
- manipular
- manipulatable
- manipulate
- manipulatee
- manipulation
- manipulative
- manipulatively
- manipulativeness
- manipulative therapist
- manipulative therapy
- manipulator
- manipulatory
- manipulee
- Manipur
- Manipuri
- manis
- ma nishtana
- Man, Isle of
- manism
- Manit.
- Manitoba
- Manitoba maple
- Manitoban