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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Any of several birds of paradise of the genus Epimachus of New Guinea, having a long curved bill like a sickle.
  • noun Either of two hummingbirds (Eutoxeres aquila or E. condamini) of South and Central America having similar bills.
  • noun Any of several other birds with similar sharply curved bills, such as Falculea palliata, a passerine bird of Madagascar.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A name of various birds whose bill is sickle-shaped or falciform; a saberbill.
  • noun The California thrasher, Harporhynchus redivivus.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun 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.
  • noun A curlew.
  • noun A bird of the genus Epimachus and allied genera.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Any of several birds with a sickle-shaped bill

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  • Obsolete name for the Long-Billed Curlew.

    December 7, 2007

  • Also a type of bird of paradise.

    December 20, 2007