Definition of curious

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Curious (a.) Exciting attention or inquiry; awakening surprise; inviting and rewarding inquisitiveness; not simple or plain; strange; rare.

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Bird Fancier :: Bird fancier () One who takes pleasure in rearing or collecting rare or curious birds.
Curiousness :: Curiousness (n.) Inquisitiveness; curiosity.
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.) Difficult to please or satisfy; solicitous to be correct; careful; scrupulous; nice; exact.
Incuriously :: Incuriously (adv.) In an curious manner.
Medalist :: Medalist (n.) A person that is skilled or curious in medals; a collector of medals.
Ingenuity :: Ingenuity (n.) Curiousness, or cleverness in design or contrivance; as, the ingenuity of a plan, or of mechanism..
Questionless :: Questionless (a.) Unquestioning; incurious.
Conceited :: Conceited (a.) Curiously contrived or designed; fanciful.
Overcurious :: Overcurious (a.) Too curious.
Oddly :: Oddly (adv.) In a peculiar manner; strangely; queerly; curiously.
Peer :: Peer (v. i.) To look narrowly or curiously or intently; to peep; as, the peering day..
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..
Curious :: Curious (a.) Careful or anxious to learn; eager for knowledge; given to research or inquiry; habitually inquisitive; prying; -- sometimes with after or of.
Speculative :: Speculative (a.) Of or pertaining to vision; also, prying; inquisitive; curious..
Exquisitive :: Exquisitive (a.) Eager to discover or learn; curious.
Earthstar :: Earthstar (n.) A curious fungus of the genus Geaster, in which the outer coating splits into the shape of a star, and the inner one forms a ball containing the dustlike spores..
Ingenious :: Ingenious (a.) Proseeding from, pertaining to, or characterized by, genius or ingenuity; of curious design, structure, or mechanism; as, an ingenious model, or machine; an ingenious scheme, contrivance, etc..
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
Caladium :: Caladium (n.) A genus of aroideous plants, of which some species are cultivated for their immense leaves (which are often curiously blotched with white and red), and others (in Polynesia) for food..
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