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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Any of several birds having long sharply curved bills, as Falculea palliata, a passerine bird of Madagascar, and Hemignathus procerus, a Hawaiian honeycreeper.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A name of various birds whose bill is sickle-shaped or falciform; a saberbill. Those of the genera Drepanis, Drepanornis, and some allied forms.
  2. n. The California thrasher, Harporhynchus redivivus.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Any of several birds with a sickle-shaped bill

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. Any one of three species of humming birds of the genus Eutoxeres, native of Central and South America. They have a long and strongly curved bill. Called also the sickle-billed hummer.
  2. n. A curlew.
  3. n. A bird of the genus Epimachus and allied genera.

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  • reesetee Also a type of bird of paradise. Dec 20, 2007

  • reesetee Obsolete name for the Long-Billed Curlew. Dec 7, 2007

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