Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun stone_curlew

1 sense of stone curlew

Sense 1
stone curlew, thick-knee, Burhinus oedicnemus -- (large-headed large-eyed crepuscular or nocturnal shorebird of the Old World and tropical America having a thickened knee joint)
       => shorebird, shore bird, limicoline bird -- (any of numerous wading birds that frequent mostly seashores and estuaries)