european curlew

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   common Eurasian curlew

   SynonymsNumenius arquata

   Broadercurlew

Questions about european curlew

What does european curlew mean?

european curlew means "common Eurasian curlew".

What is another word for european curlew?

Close synonyms include Numenius arquata. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is european curlew a common word?

european curlew is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.