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Thick-knee

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Noun

1. burhinus oedicnemus, stone curlew, thick-knee

large-headed large-eyed crepuscular or nocturnal shorebird of the Old World and tropical America having a thickened knee joint

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Thick-knee

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noun
another name for stone curlew

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Thick-knee

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n.
Any of various widely distributed, chiefly nocturnal shorebirds of the family Burhinidae, found primarily in arid or semiarid regions and having large heads, large yellow eyes, and knobby leg joints. Also called stone-curlew.

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