Word.ws English Dictionary

slender-billed curlew

slender-billed curlew noun: a bird of species Numenius tenuirostris, now probably extinct.

slender-billed curlew: a bird of species Numenius tenuirostris, now probably extinct
Image: Elizabeth Gould & Edward Lear, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Noun

slender-billed curlew (plural slender-billed curlews)

  1. A bird of species Numenius tenuirostris, now probably extinct.

Forms of slender-billed curlew

pluralslender-billed curlews

Questions about slender-billed curlew

What does slender-billed curlew mean?
Slender-billed curlew means a bird of species Numenius tenuirostris, now probably extinct.
What part of speech is slender-billed curlew?
Slender-billed curlew is a noun.
What is the plural of slender-billed curlew?
The plural of slender-billed curlew is slender-billed curlews.

Words near slender-billed curlew in the dictionary

  1. slender tare
  2. slender tares
  3. slender vetch
  4. slender vetches
  5. Slender West Lake
  6. slender-billed curlew
  7. slender-billed curlews
  8. slender-billed greenfinch
  9. slender-billed greenfinches
  10. slender-billed gull
  11. slender-billed gulls

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: slender-billed curlew (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “slender-billed curlew.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/slender-billed_curlew. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.