| 单词 | stone curlew |
| 释义 | stone curlew (once / 513884 pages) n WORD FAMILY stone curlew: stone curlews USAGE EXAMPLESIt's thought there are around 400 pairs of stone curlews in the UK. Children's BBC(Apr 10, 2013) The willet, or stone curlew as it is sometimes called, is a resident species, breeding from Washington to Mexico. Payne, Harry Thom, Game Birds and Game Fishes of the P...(2011) The Stone Curlews, both adult and young, are very inconspicuous among the stones on the beach. Thomson, J. Arthur, The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of...(2010) n large-headed large-eyed crepuscular or nocturnal shorebird of the Old World and tropical America having a thickened knee joint Syn|Hyper Burhinus oedicnemus, thick-knee limicoline bird, shore bird, shorebird any of numerous wading birds that frequent mostly seashores and estuaries |
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