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語源

From Middle English curlew, from Old French courlieu (see French courlis), claimed to be imitative of the bird's cry but apparently assimilated with dialectal *corliu (“runner, messenger”), a variant of coureur (the bird is adept at running).

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈkɜːlju/, /ˈkɜːlu/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkɝlu/

名詞

curlew (複数形 curlews)

1. Any of several migratory wading birds in the genus Numenius of the family Scolopacidae, remarkable for their long, slender, downcurved bills.
2. (Australia) A stone curlew.
   • 1902, Barbara Baynton, Sally Krimmer; Alan Lawson, editors, 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