WHIMBREL

Definition: WHIMBREL

WHIMBREL

Noun

1. Any one of several species of small curlews, especially the European species (Numenius phaeopus), called also Jack curlew, half curlew, stone curlew, and tang whaup. See Illustration in Appendix.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "WHIMBREL" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1896. (references)

Note: Whimbrel \Whim"brel\, noun. [Compare to Whimper.]. (Websters 1913)

Crosswords: WHIMBREL

English words defined with "WHIMBREL": Curlew Jack ♦ Jack curlew ♦ Maybird ♦ Tangwhaup, Titterel ♦ Whaap, Wimbrel. (references)

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Specialty Definition: Whimbrel

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Whimbrel

European race of Whimbrel

Scientific classification

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Charadriiformes
Family:	Scolopacidae
Genus:	Numenius
Species:	phaeopus

Binomial name

Numenius phaeopus

The Whimbrel, Numenius phaeopus, is a wader in the large family Scolopacidae. It is the one of the most widespread of the curlews, breeding across much of subarctic North America, Europe and Asia.

This is a migratory species wintering on coasts in Africa, South America, south Asia into Australasia. It is fairly gregarious outside the breeding season.

This is a large wader at 37-45 cm length. It is mainly greyish brown, with a white back (European race N. p. phaeopus only), and a long curved bill (longest in the adult female) with a kink rather than a smooth curve. It is generally wary. The familiar call is a rippling whistle.

The only similar common species over most of this bird's range are larger curlews. Whimbrel is smaller, has a shorter bill and has a central crown stripe and strong supercilia.

This species feeds by probing soft mud for small invertebrates and by picking small crabs and similar prey off the surface.

The nest is a bare scrape on tundra or arctic moorland. 3-5 eggs are laid.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Whimbrel."

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Image Slideshow: WHIMBREL

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Photo Album: WHIMBREL

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Whimbrel.Credit: Alaska Image Library.
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Usage Frequency: WHIMBREL

"WHIMBREL" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 87.50% of the time. "WHIMBREL" is used about 16 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	87.5%	14	93,893
Noun (proper)	6.25%	1	339,140
Noun (common)	6.25%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	16	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: WHIMBREL

Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "WHIMBREL": whimbrel-like.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: WHIMBREL

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
whimbrel	6
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Modern Translations: WHIMBREL

Language		Translations for "WHIMBREL"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Bulgarian		малък свирец. (various references)

Danish		lille regnspove. (various references)

Dutch		regenwulp. (various references)

French		courlis corlieu. (various references)

German		Regenbrachvogel. (various references)

Greek		σιγλίγουρος. (various references)

Italian		ciurlo piccolo, chiurlo piccolo, chiurletto. (various references)

Manx		eean Voaldyn, crottag veg, crottag houree. (various references)

Pig Latin		imbrelwhay

Portuguese		maçarico galego. (various references)

Spanish		zarapito trinador. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: WHIMBREL

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	Numenius phaeopus, RM:fliaun pitschen. (various references)
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Derivations: WHIMBREL

Derivations
	Words beginning with "WHIMBREL": whimbrels. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "WHIMBREL"

Words rhyming with "WHIMBREL" (pronounced 'Whim"brel'): Cambrel, Chambrel, timbrel, Wimbrel. (additional references)

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Anagrams: WHIMBREL

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-e-h-i-l-m-r-w"
	-2 letters: limber, wimble.
	-3 letters: birle, liber, miler, whelm, while, whirl.
	-4 letters: berm, bier, bile, birl, blew, brew, brie, brim, elhi, emir, heil, heir, helm, herb, herl, herm, hire, lehr, lier, limb, lime, lire, lwei, merl, mewl, mile, mire, riel, rile, rime, weir, whim, whir, wile, wire.
	-5 letters: bel, elm, hem, her, hew, hie, him, ire.
	Words containing the letters "b-e-h-i-l-m-r-w"
	+1 letter: whimbrels.
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