[nok ī-køi lek] (n, exp) EN: Whimbrel ; Common WhimbrelFR: Courlis corlieu [ m ] ; Courlis hudsonien (N. ph. hudsonicus) [ m ] ; Petit Courlis [ m ] ; Courlis de terre [ m ]
(n)English navigator who discovered the Hudson River; in 1610 he attempted to winter in Hudson Bay but his crew mutinied and set him adrift to die (1565-1611), Syn.Henry Hudson
(n)the first coherent school of American art; active from 1825 to 1870; painted wilderness landscapes of the Hudson River valley and surrounding New England, Syn.romantic realism