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coucal
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun coucal has 1 sense
- coucal(n = noun.animal) Array - Old World ground-living cuckoo having a long dagger-like hind claw; Array is a kind of cuckoo
is a member of centropus, genus centropus
has particulars: centropus sinensis, crow pheasant, centropus phasianinus, pheasant coucal, pheasant cuckoo
CIDE DICTIONARY
coucal, n. [Prob. native name.].
A large, Old World, ground cuckoo of the genus Centropus , of several species. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
coucal, n. any ground-nesting bird of the genus Centropus, related to the cuckoos.
Etymology
F, perh. f. coucou cuckoo + alouette lark
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