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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Superdominant :: Supercurious (a.) Excessively curious or inquisitive.
Labellum :: Labellum (n.) The lower or apparently anterior petal of an orchidaceous flower, often of a very curious shape..
Mask Shell :: Mask shell () Any spiral marine shell of the genus Persona, having a curiously twisted aperture..
Kamichi :: Kamichi (n.) A curious South American bird (Anhima, / Palamedea, cornuta), often domesticated by the natives and kept with poultry, which it defends against birds of prey. It has a long, slender, hornlike ornament on its head, and two sharp spurs on each wing. Although its beak, feet, and legs resemble those of gallinaceous birds, it is related in anatomical characters to the ducks and geese (Anseres). Called also horned screamer. The name is sometimes applied also to the chaja. See Chaja, and S
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..
Questionless :: Questionless (a.) Unquestioning; incurious.
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.)..
Inquisitive :: Inquisitive (n.) A person who is inquisitive; one curious in research.
Fanciful :: Fanciful (a.) Curiously shaped or constructed; as, she wore a fanciful headdress..
Curiousness :: Curiousness (n.) The state of being curious; exactness of workmanship; ingenuity of contrivance.
Quidnunc :: Quidnunc (n.) One who is curious to know everything that passes; one who knows, or pretends to know, all that is going on..
Curious :: Curious (a.) Careful or anxious to learn; eager for knowledge; given to research or inquiry; habitually inquisitive; prying; -- sometimes with after or of.
Curiosity :: Curiosity (n.) That which is curious, or fitted to excite or reward attention..
Incurious :: Incurious (a.) Not curious or inquisitive; without care for or interest in; inattentive; careless; negligent; heedless.
Overcurious :: Overcurious (a.) Too curious.
Oddly :: Oddly (adv.) In a peculiar manner; strangely; queerly; curiously.
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..
Curiosity :: Curiosity (n.) The state or quality or being curious; nicety; accuracy; exactness; elaboration.
Guib :: Guib (n.) A West African antelope (Tragelaphus scriptus), curiously marked with white stripes and spots on a reddish fawn ground, and hence called harnessed antelope; -- called also guiba..
Stand-by :: Standard-wing (n.) A curious paradise bird (Semioptera Wallacii) which has two long special feathers standing erect on each wing.
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