1. large-headed large-eyed crepuscular or nocturnal shorebird of the Old World and tropical America having a thickened knee joint; [syn: stone curlew, thick-knee, Burhinus oedicnemus]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Burhinus oedicnemus
n 1: large-headed large-eyed crepuscular or nocturnal shorebird
of the Old World and tropical America having a thickened
knee joint [syn: stone curlew, thick-knee, Burhinus
oedicnemus]