Usually means: Large, long-billed wading birds.
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  1. curlews: Merriam-Webster
  2. curlews: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. curlews: Collins English Dictionary
  4. curlews: Vocabulary.com
  5. Curlew's, Curlews, curlew's, curlews: Wordnik
  6. curlews: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. curlews: Wiktionary
  8. curlews: Dictionary.com
  9. Curlews: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Curlews: TheFreeDictionary.com

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(Note: See curlew as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (curlew)

noun:  Any of several migratory wading birds in the genus Numenius of the family Scolopacidae, remarkable for their long, slender, downcurved bills.
noun:  (Australia) A stone curlew.
▸ Also see curlew


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