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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