kookaburra

POS

Noun

HYPHEN

kook=a=bur=ra

top

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun kookaburra has 1 sense

kookaburra(n = noun.animal) dacelo gigas, laughing jackass - Australian kingfisher having a loud cackling cry; Array

is a kind of kingfisher

is a member of dacelo, genus dacelo

top

OXFORD DICTIONARY

kookaburra, n. any Australian kingfisher of the genus Dacelo, esp. D. novaeguineae, which makes a strange laughing cry. Also called laughing jackass.

Etymology

Aboriginal

For further exploring for "kookaburra" in Webster Dictionary Online