| NOUN | animal | hoopoe, hoopoo | any of several crested Old World birds with a slender downward-curved bill |
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| Sounds | hhuw'puw. | |
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| Rhymes | Pu ... shampoo: 3 rhymes with puw... | |
| Meaning | Any of several crested Old World birds with a slender downward-curved bill. | |
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| Synonym | hoopoo | |
| Member of | Upupidae, family Upupidae | hoopoes |
| Narrower | Euopean hoopoe, Upupa epops | pinkish-brown hoopoe with black-and-white wings |
| Broader | coraciiform bird | chiefly short-legged arboreal nonpasserine birds that nest in holes |
| Spanish | abubilla, upupa epops | |
| Catalan | but-but, palput, puput | |
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