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hoopoo
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun hoopoo has 1 sense
- hoopoo(n = noun.animal) hoopoe - any of several crested Old World birds with a slender downward-curved bill; Array is a kind of coraciiform bird
is a member of family upupidae, upupidae
has particulars: euopean hoopoe, upupa epops
CIDE DICTIONARY
hoopoo, n. [So called from its cry; cf. L. upupa, Gr. , D. hop, F. huppe; cf. also G. wiedenhopf, OHG. wituhopfo, lit., wood hopper.].
A European bird of the genus Upupa (Upupa epops ), having a beautiful crest, which it can erect or depress at pleasure, and a slender down-curving bill. Called also hoop , whoop . The name is also applied to several other species of the same genus and allied genera.
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