thick-knee Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun large-headed large-eyed crepuscular or nocturnal shorebird of the Old World and tropical America having a thickened knee joint
    Burhinus oedicnemus; stone curlew.

WordNet


Thick"-knee` noun
Definitions
  1. (Zoöl.) A stone curlew. See under Stone.

Webster 1913