HyperDic: wood_hoopoe

English > 1 sense of the expression *wood hoopoe*:
NOUN	animal	wood hoopoe	tropical African bird having metallic blackish plumage but no crest

English > *wood hoopoe*: 1 sense > noun 1, animal
Meaning	Tropical African bird having metallic blackish plumage but no crest.
Member of	Phoeniculus, genus Phoeniculus	type and only genus of the family Phoeniculidae
Broader	coraciiform bird	chiefly short-legged arboreal nonpasserine birds that nest in holes