Curlewとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈkɜːlju/, /ˈkɜːlu/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈkɝlu/

名詞

curlew (plural curlews)

1. Any of several migratory wading birds in the genus Numenius, remarkable for their long, slender, downcurved bills.
   • a. 1881, Oscar Wilde, 'The Garden of Eros', in Poems‎:

     The corncrake nested in the unmown field
     Answers its mate, across the misty stream
     On fitful wing the startled curlews fly,
     And in his sedgy bed the lark, for joy that Day is nigh [...]

2. (Australia) A stone curlew (Burhinidae spp.).
   • 1902, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Bush Studies (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 16:

     That quivering wail from the billabong lying murkily mystic towards the East was only the cry of the fearing curlew.

派生語

参考

• curlew sandpiper
• stone curlew

参照

• “curlew”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• curlew on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Numenius on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Numenius on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

語源

From Old French courlieu.

発音

• IPA: /kurˈliu̯/, /ˈkurliu̯/

名詞

curlew (plural curlewes)

1. curlew
2. quail

派生した語

• English: curlew

参照

• “curleu, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 9 March 2019.