Sic"kle*bill` (?), n. Zool. (a)

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.

(b)

A curlew.

(c)

A bird of the genus Epimachus and allied genera.

 

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