thick-knee

thick-knee
/thik"nee'/, n.
any of several crepuscular or nocturnal wading birds of the family Burhinidae, of the Old World and tropical America, having a thickened joint between the femoral and tibiotarsal bones. Also called stone curlew.
[1810-20]

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