hoopoo

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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

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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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