Definition of curious

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Curious (a.) Careful or anxious to learn; eager for knowledge; given to research or inquiry; habitually inquisitive; prying; -- sometimes with after or of.

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Inquisitive :: Inquisitive (a.) Given to examination, investigation, or research; searching; curious..
Waybung :: Waybung (n.) An Australian insessorial bird (Corcorax melanorhamphus) noted for the curious actions of the male during the breeding season. It is black with a white patch on each wing.
Oddly :: Oddly (adv.) In a peculiar manner; strangely; queerly; curiously.
Manakin :: Manakin (n.) Any one of numerous small birds belonging to Pipra, Manacus, and other genera of the family Pipridae. They are mostly natives of Central and South America. some are bright-colored, and others have the wings and tail curiously ornamented. The name is sometimes applied to related birds of other families..
Conceited :: Conceited (a.) Curiously contrived or designed; fanciful.
Myzostomata :: Myzostomata (n. pl.) An order of curious parasitic worms found on crinoids. The body is short and disklike, with four pairs of suckers and five pairs of hook-bearing parapodia on the under side..
Inquisitive :: Inquisitive (n.) A person who is inquisitive; one curious in research.
Curious :: Curious (a.) Exhibiting care or nicety; artfully constructed; elaborate; wrought with elegance or skill.
Malpighiaceous :: Malpighiaceous (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a natural order of tropical trees and shrubs (Malpighiaceae), some of them climbing plants, and their stems forming many of the curious lianes of South American forests..
Monkflower :: Monkflower (n.) A name of certain curious orchids which bear three kinds of flowers formerly referred to three genera, but now ascertained to be sexually different forms of the same genus (Catasetum tridentatum, etc.)..
Starost :: Starnose (n.) A curious American mole (Condylura cristata) having the nose expanded at the end into a stellate disk; -- called also star-nosed mole.
Langaha :: Langaha (n.) A curious colubriform snake of the genus Xyphorhynchus, from Madagascar. It is brownish red, and its nose is prolonged in the form of a sharp blade..
Curiousness :: Curiousness (n.) Carefulness; painstaking.
Begonia :: Begonia (n.) A genus of plants, mostly of tropical America, many species of which are grown as ornamental plants. The leaves are curiously one-sided, and often exhibit brilliant colors..
Incuriousness :: Incuriousness (n.) Unconcernedness; incuriosity.
Fanciful :: Fanciful (a.) Curiously shaped or constructed; as, she wore a fanciful headdress..
Quidnunc :: Quidnunc (n.) One who is curious to know everything that passes; one who knows, or pretends to know, all that is going on..
Ovenbird :: Ovenbird (n.) Any species of the genus Furnarius, allied to the creepers. They inhabit South America and the West Indies, and construct curious oven-shaped nests..
Speculative :: Speculative (a.) Of or pertaining to vision; also, prying; inquisitive; curious..
Curiosity :: Curiosity (n.) The state or quality or being curious; nicety; accuracy; exactness; elaboration.
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