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Definition of Stone curlew
1. Noun. Large-headed large-eyed crepuscular or nocturnal shorebird of the Old World and tropical America having a thickened knee joint.
Generic synonyms: Limicoline Bird, Shore Bird, Shorebird
Group relationships: Burhinus, Genus Burhinus
Definition of Stone curlew
1. Noun. Several species of large terrestrial birds in the family ''Burhinidae''. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stone Curlew
Literary usage of Stone curlew
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Natural History of Selborne by Gilbert White (1868)
"This bird I have remarked myself, but never could make out till lately. I am
assured now that it is the stone curlew (charadrius ..."
2. An Arabic-English Dictionary on a New Systemby Habib Anthony Salmoné by Habib Anthony Salmoné (1890)
"Stone.curlew, n. 486,52. Stone.cutter, я. 792,52 ; 1037,56; 123,13 ; (tool) 892,11.
Stone.dust, я. 1096,20. Stone.mason, n. 792,52; 123,13. ..."
3. Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne by Gilbert White, Francis Trevelyan Buckland, Roundell Palmer Selborne, Philip Henry Delamotte (1875)
"... child was much too young to be aware that the Scriptures have said of the
Deity—that " He feedeth the ravens who call upon Him." STONE-CURLEW sE(il,. ..."
4. Birds' Nests: An Introduction to the Science of Caliology by Charles Dixon (1902)
"... Birds and Vultures—Ringed Plover—Coursers and Pratincoles—Stone-Curlew—Gulls and
... stone curlew ..."
5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"The Curlew of inlanders, or Stone-Curlew—called also, by some writers, from its
stronghold ... As autumn advances the Stone-Curlew gathers in large flocks, ..."
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