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Eskimo curlew
Eskimo curlew
noun
a New World curlew,
Numenius borealis,
that breeds in northern North America: now nearly extinct.
Origin:
1805–15,
Americanism
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eskimo curlew
noun
New World curlew that breeds in northern North America
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