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Hoopoo

noun

Any of several crested Old World birds with a slender downward-curved bill. Synonym: hoopoe.

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"Hoopoo" Quotes from Famous Books

... travelling downward. The lush fields of barley, watered by many channels from the brook Kelt, are waving and glistening around us. Quails are running along the edge of the road, appearing and disappearing among the thick grain-stalks. The bulbuls warble from the thorn-bushes, and a crested hoopoo croons in a jujube-tree. Larks are on the wing, ...

— Out-of-Doors in the Holy Land - Impressions of Travel in Body and Spirit • Henry Van Dyke

... ground had crumbled, the line wavered, and was depressed, and though the water was not visible the high lateen sails of the native boats, going southward in the sun, showed themselves to her strangely behind the fretwork of the leaves. At her approach a hoopoo rose and flew away above the trees. Somewhere a ...

— Bella Donna - A Novel • Robert Hichens

Words linked to "Hoopoo" : family Upupidae, Upupa epops, Euopean hoopoe, coraciiform bird, Upupidae, hoopoe